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Leadership (Abuja)Yenagoa - Ex-militant leaders yesterday announced their decisions to relocate to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja and intensify lobbying of northern youth groups for the acceptance of President Goodluck Jonathan as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2011 elections, warning northern elders not to plunge the country into violence and civil war over the issue of zoning of the presidency.
Vanguard (Lagos)Uyo - Former lead-ers of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND, yesterday, threatened to commence a "fresh oil war," if President Goodluck Jonathan does not forward, within a reasonable time, a Bill to the National Assembly to expunge the Land Use Decree from the 1999 constitution.
Daily Independent (Lagos)Calabar - Fifteen former Niger Delta militants, who were among the first batch of over 2,000 that received post-amnesty training in Obubra, Cross River State have gotten their periods extended into the second batch for failing to pass their examination on non-violence.
Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra)At present, a lot seems to have been said concerning the actual path of production of Ghana's oil and gas resource. This is well attributable to the growing awareness of the perverse phenomenon of the "resource curse" that has proved beyond reasonable doubts its destructive impacts on resource-rich countries.
Daily Independent (Lagos)The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ogbonna Onovo's comments on the recent kidnap drama of four journalists on Sunday, July 11, should be appreciated beyond the theatricals of the moment. Onovo might have adopted that obviously comic approach to draw maximum attention to the looming danger in the region, but the fact of the matter, according to critics, is that such a situation did not require grandstanding or inflammatory statements but tactical strategy.