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08/27/2009

Leadership (Abuja) Yenagoa - The Chairman, Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State , Mr. Donald Daunimigher, yesterday intensified campaign along the waterways and creeks of the state asking the militants to embrace the amnesty programme like their colleagues in other parts of the Niger Delta.

08/27/2009

Leadership (Abuja) Abuja - The Federal Government yesterday warned the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) not to contemplate any further attack on any oil facility in the country.

08/26/2009

Daily Independent (Lagos) Lagos - There are indications that the government may have instructed the Joint Task Force (JTF) to respond forcefully to the threat by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) to resume hostilities on oil facilities on September 15 when its self-declared ceasefire expires.

08/26/2009

Honorary Special Adviser to the President on Niger-Delta, Mr. Timi Alaibe, on Tuesday held secret talks with one of the foremost militant leaders in the region. Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, at Oporoza community in Gbaramatu Kingdom, in the Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State, just as Tompolo alleged that influential government officials were behind oil bunkering in the region and challenged President Umaru Yar'Adua to dare stop them and see what will happen.

08/25/2009

Daily Independent (Lagos) Lagos/ port Harcourt - Unrepentant militants have nowhere to hide, Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, has warned, as he declared his determination to demolish all waterfronts, including the ones in Okrika, whose owners have been trying to stop him from pulling down the structures.

08/25/2009

analysis Lagos - The beautifully constructed Isaac Boro Peace Park, Yenogoa was well decorated as it wore a carnival outlook last Saturday. Even the inclement weather, in which the heavens opened up, could not scuttle the elaborate programme with prominent guests and people of the state already seated for an epoch making ceremony. Amid songs by the excited foot soldiers of the king pins of the Niger Delta struggle, the erstwhile war lords drove into the arena with fanfare.

08/24/2009

opinion Lagos - Developments in the Niger Delta are freighted with global significance. Many multinational oil firms have huge investments in the Niger Delta. The abduction of foreign oil workers in the region spreads the emotional pain of the conflict around the world. The recent firming up in oil prices, as on several occasions in past years, has been due in part to the conflict in that region which accounts for all the oil and gas produced and exported by Nigeria.

08/24/2009

Port Harcourt - The Honourary Special Adviser to President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua on Niger Delta, Mr. Timi Alaibe, has warned the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) over reports that it has threatened to resume attacks on oil installations.

08/24/2009

Lagos - The week-long 2009 Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association ended Friday last week, with participants, for once, praising the organisers and host state. JUDE IGBANOI, AKINWALE AKINTUNDE and OLALEYE FAYESE  report on what made this year’s conference stand out.

08/24/2009

Leadership (Abuja) Yenagoa - The ranks of the opposition political parties in Bayelsa State was yesterday divided over the involvement of the Governor Timipre Sylva administration in organising what they referred to as fanfare in the presentation of arms and ammunition by 16 militant leaders and cult groups in the state.