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Daily Champion (Lagos)Warri - Cracks within the ranks of Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND),may have deepened, as the Warri Ijaw Peace Monitoring Group (WIPMG) has condemned the removal of Ms Annkio Briggs as a member of the Aaron team.
Leadership (Abuja)New York - A Nigerian in the Diaspora has hailed Justice Olubunmi Oyewole's verdict which sentenced the former chairman of the board of directors of Nigerian Ports Authority, Chief Olabode George and five others to 28 years imprisonment each over their roles in contract splitting and disobedience of constituted authority.
Fahamu (Oxford)On the eve of the climate change summit in Copenhagen this December, momentum for action still falls far short of that needed to avert catastrophe. Africa will suffer consequences out of all proportion to its contribution to global warming, which is primarily caused by greenhouse gas emissions from wealthy countries.
Daily Champion (Lagos)In a bid to end disturbances in the Niger Delta region which has cost the country billions of dollars in lost revenue, the federal government proposed amnesty to militants in Niger Delta region, urging them to lay down their arms. By October 4, many militant leaders gave up their arms and embraced the presidential pardon, offered to end years of violence in the oil-rich region.
AfricaFocus (Washington, DC)
A gas flare in Nigeria:The effects of gas flaring impacts on global warming in Africa. (Photo Courtesy Peter Roderick/Friends of the Earth)
Washington, DC - On the eve of the climate change summit in Copenhagen this December, momentum for action still falls far short of that needed to avert catastrophe. Africa will suffer consequences out of all proportion to its contribution to global warming, which is primarily caused by greenhouse gas emissions from wealthy countries.
analysis
Washington, DC - On the eve of the climate change summit in Copenhagen this December, momentum for action still falls far short of that needed to avert catastrophe. Africa will suffer consequences out of all proportion to its contribution to global warming, which is primarily caused by greenhouse gas emissions from wealthy countries.
In a bid to end disturbances in the Niger Delta region which has cost the country billions of dollars in lost revenue, the federal government proposed amnesty to militants in Niger Delta region, urging them to lay down their arms. By October 4, many militant leaders gave up their arms and embraced the presidential pardon, offered to end years of violence in the oil-rich region.
opinion
On the eve of the climate change summit in Copenhagen this December, momentum for action still falls far short of that needed to avert catastrophe. Africa will suffer consequences out of all proportion to its contribution to global warming, which is primarily caused by greenhouse gas emissions from wealthy countries.
Warri - Cracks within the ranks of Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND),may have deepened, as the Warri Ijaw Peace Monitoring Group (WIPMG) has condemned the removal of Ms Annkio Briggs as a member of the Aaron team.