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07/28/2009

Daily Independent (Lagos) THE RECENT attack on the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) loading jetty, otherwise known as the Atlas Cove, by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has again raised a fundamental question as to the intention if the pressure group vis-a-vis their claim that they are out to liberate their people from the hands of a thieving Federal Government.

07/28/2009

Daily Independent (Lagos) Lagos - Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, no doubt is one academic giant that has, according to informed opinion, played an active role in Nigeria's political history. This was evident in his 1965 unauthorised broadcast calling for the cancellation of the rigged Western Nigeria Regional elections following his brief seizure of the Western Nigeria Broadcasting Service (WNBS) studio.

07/28/2009

Lagos - Lagos Lawyer, Femi Falana, has reacted to the demand for apology from Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), by some Yoruba elders, over the bombing of Atlas Cove in Lagos. Falana said, "following the unfortunate attack on Atlas Cove in Lagos a fortnight ago, some self appointed Yoruba Elders have issued threats and demanded apology from MEND, 'on behalf of the Yoruba people.'

07/28/2009

analysis Lagos - From the tight corner of the oil esplanade where I sat, I saw a huge number of people impossible to count: men and women, children, the sick, traditional rulers dressed in different traditional attires, politicians, diplomats, journalists, native doctors, fiery-fighting militants, among others, all anxiously waiting for the great event to commence.

07/28/2009

Abuja — The announcement of the reversal of the upgrade of the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI), Effurun, Delta State, to a University of Petroleum Technology has come under attack by members of the House of Representatives from the South-South zone, calling for the sack of the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Alhaji Rilwanu Lukman.

07/28/2009

Daily Independent (Lagos) THE RECENT attack on the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) loading jetty, otherwise known as the Atlas Cove, by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has again raised a fundamental question as to the intention if the pressure group vis-a-vis their claim that they are out to liberate their people from the hands of a thieving Federal Government.

07/28/2009

Daily Independent (Lagos) Lagos — Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, no doubt is one academic giant that has, according to informed opinion, played an active role in Nigeria's political history. This was evident in his 1965 unauthorised broadcast calling for the cancellation of the rigged Western Nigeria Regional elections following his brief seizure of the Western Nigeria Broadcasting Service (WNBS) studio.

07/28/2009

Lagos — Lagos Lawyer, Femi Falana, has reacted to the demand for apology from Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), by some Yoruba elders, over the bombing of Atlas Cove in Lagos. Falana said, "following the unfortunate attack on Atlas Cove in Lagos a fortnight ago, some self appointed Yoruba Elders have issued threats and demanded apology from MEND, 'on behalf of the Yoruba people.'

07/28/2009

analysis Lagos — From the tight corner of the oil esplanade where I sat, I saw a huge number of people impossible to count: men and women, children, the sick, traditional rulers dressed in different traditional attires, politicians, diplomats, journalists, native doctors, fiery-fighting militants, among others, all anxiously waiting for the great event to commence.

07/27/2009

Lagos - At last, the leaders of the Niger Delta region as symbolised by the governors of the six South-South States, have decided to wake up from their self-imposed slumber. - They have decided to react to the series of insulting pronouncements and policy measures, which the government of President Umar Musa Yar' Adua has been assembling of late, especially in the oil industry. These measures are being taken in a manner as if to spite the people of the oil producing areas even as efforts are being made to persuade its militants to accept the so-called amnesty offer.