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12/19/2009

12/10/2009

12/08/2009

Lagos - The amnesty programme of the Federal Government has impacted positively on the country's oil production as daily output currently averaged between 2.4 and 2.45 million barrels. Giving a breakdown of the figure, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr. Odein Ajumogobia said in Abuja yesterday that the country was currently producing between 1.8 million and 1.85 million barrels per day of crude oil and 600,000 bpd of condensate.

12/07/2009

opinion Abuja - The cessation of armed agitation in the Niger Delta as a result of President Umaru Musa Yar'adua's Amnesty Initiative is a very laudable achievement. Even more commendable is Yar'adua's states-manly gesture of granting ten percent equity in the oil business in Nigeria to the Niger Delta.

12/06/2009

analysis - Among the militant leaders, Mujaheed Dokubo-Asari and Ebikabowei Victor Ben alias Boyloaf deserve special recognition. Dokubo-Asari had committed himself to peaceful agitation since his release from detention. He, therefore, deserves credit for blazing the trail. Boyloaf too, once he made up his mind to drop the gun, did not look back. He had no second thoughts about it and began to play a statesmanlike role. His pronouncements were quite mature, responsible and constructive. To him the armed struggle was one phase that was meant to highlight the plight of his people. He felt the case has been sufficiently made. The second phase is to get Government to negotiate and focus on development programme. This is quite a reasonable stance indeed.

12/06/2009

Early in the life of the present administration, there were speculations as to the whereabouts of President Musa Yar'Adua. He had left the country without telling Nigerians where he was headed to or why. However, soon after his departure, news started to filter in that he had gone for medical examination and treatment at a hospital in Saudi Arabia.

12/05/2009

THE Aaron team, a group of negotiators, led by the former Chief of General Staff, Vice Admiral Okhai Mike Akhigbe (rtd), set up by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) to dialogue with the Federal Government with a view to bringing the Niger-Delta crisis to an acceptable end has called for suggestions and advice from Niger-Deltans, Nigerians and friends of Nigeria towards proper execution of the assignment.

12/01/2009

Warri - Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) weekend divorced itself from a statement by the Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC) on Sunday, threatening possible secession by Ijaw ethnic group should Vice President Goodluck Jonathan be forced to resign from office.