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Daily Champion (Lagos)Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has condemned the attempted act of terrorism on Delta flight 253 into the United States "by a misguided Islamic extremist from the Northern part of Nigeria."
The condemnation was contained in an email by MEND spokesman Jomo Gbomo.
Daily Champion (Lagos)The lingering uncertainty over the health of President Umaru Yar'Adua and the associated political intrigues surrounding his absence are raising fresh concerns over the sustainability of peace in the Niger Delta where militants are said to have started regrouping with fresh demands.
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This Day (Lagos)Port Harcourt - Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has condemned the attempted blowing up of a Delta airline Flight 253 by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab whom it described as an Islamist extremist.
The group said it was a proof that threat to world peace would never come from the Niger Delta but from other sections of the country.
Vanguard (Lagos)The excitement was palpable - that is meeting Professor Auwalu Hamisu Yadudu. Tracking him from Abuja, Kano, Ilorin and even Lagos, it was worth the long wait to finally pin him down. There are some interviews you do because you want news; but at the end of this interview with Professor Yadudu, you get education.