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Vanguard (Lagos)Prof. Dora Nkem Akunyili caught the nation's attention with her unrelenting campaign against fake and adulterated drugs in the country in her immediate past employment as Director General of the National Agency for Foods, Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC).
Vanguard (Lagos)DELTA State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has said that not a few industries outside the Niger Delta region were encouraging illegal bunkering that has resulted in increased pipeline vandalization usually linked to the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND.
Daily Independent (Lagos)In my graduating class I was one of the five girls in a class of twenty four students who took the final examinations. The school year had started out with twelve girls and thirty boys in my class, but some of the boys dropped out to take on responsibility for their families. Others dropped out to join the growing army who claimed they were fighting for justice for the Niger Delta..."- Narrative voice of Zilayefa, the central character in Kaine Agary's Yellow-Yellow.
Vanguard (Lagos)There is anxiety and fear of resurgence of violence in the Niger Delta as the Amnesty Committee is said to have been reducing the number of repentant militants submitted by the ex-militant leaders.
Sunday Vanguard learnt that some of the repentant militant leaders have been finding it difficult to control the anger of their followers who may not make the list of the Amnesty Committee. It was gathered, for instance, that the 10, 000 member-list submitted by former MEND leader, Government Ekpemupolo (alias Tompolo), was reduced to 2,000 by the Amnesty Committee.
Daily Champion (Lagos)Lagos - Nigeria's crude oil export increased by 80,000 barrels per day to 2.080 million barrels per day in January, according to figures compiled by Platts Energy group on export from members of Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).