Oil giant Shell's long-overdue compensation pay out to a community devastated by oil spills in the Niger Delta is an important victory for the victims of corporate negligence, said Amnesty International and the Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development today.
Niger Delta
Between Boko Haram and MEND’s renewed attacks
Uneasy calm has engulfed the South-South part of Nigeria following renewed violence in the region and the vow by a faction of the Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND,to avenge the killing of Southerners in the North by threatening to bomb mosques even though the Joint Military Task Force has dismissed the threats, saying […]
NIGERIA: FG empowers 300 ex-Niger Delta militants
The Federal Government, yesterday, gave financial and material aid to 300 ex-Niger Delta militants to enable them start off their medium and small-scale businesses. The aid was given the ex-militants as part of government’s package to fully re-integrate them into the society. The ex-militants were empowered by the Presidential Amnesty Office in areas of sales […]
Nigeria police killed by N/DELTA militants back from death
Call it faith, you are right, as the family of Mr. Lucky Ebebi, one of the 12 policemen presumed dead after an attack by ex-militants at Azuzama, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State had cause to smile, he resurfaced alive yesterday. In fact, his name, Lucky, may have played a divine role in […]
NIGERIA: MEND’s Threat and Matters Arising
If they made good their threat, at the time you are reading this, members of the taken-for-dead Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) would have resumed hostilities in the Niger Delta area, their major catchment area. The group had been in the forefront of violent agitation about ten years ago, demanding mainly, […]
Nigeria: Orubebe Begins Sensitisation On Niger Delta Stakeholders’ Confab
The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe, has solicited the support of governors of the nine states in the Niger Delta region as part of the ministry's sensitisation efforts towards the forthcoming stakeholders' conference. Orubebe, who spoke when he was received by the Deputy Governor of Cross River State, Mr. Effiok Cobhan, on […]
NIGERIA: Community halts Shell gas project
The people of Otumara Community, Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State, have asked the Shell Petroleum Development Company Limited, SPDC, to halt a proposed gas plant project in the area, or, on the alternative, give them adequate compensation to relocate, before the company can go ahead to site its proposed gas plant in […]
NIGERIA: Ex-militant commanders warn kidnappers in Niger Delta
EX-militant commanders in the Niger Delta region have warned hoodlums to desist from further acts of kidnapping in the region. In a statement under the aegis of Leadership Forum for Peace, the former militant commanders, who spoke through ‘General’ Reuben Wilson, said they would not tolerate further acts of kidnapping for ransom in the region. […]
NIGERIA: Crisis tears ex-militant group, NDLF apart
CRISIS hit the defunct Niger-Delta Liberation Force, NDLF, a militant group formed by the ex-militant leader, the late “General” John Togo, weekend, with the group torn into two factions. Spokesperson of the group, “Captain” Mark Anthony, in an exclusive electronic mail statement to Saturday Vanguard, confirmed that Togo’s successor, “General” Peter, has been deposed by […]
MEND: Ref: Conviction of our Leader and Founder Mr. Henry Okah
We witnessed ourselves firsthand the conviction of our dear leader yesterday the 21st of January 2013 by the South African Supreme Court on all the 13th count charges which as we all know has to do with ASO ROCK politic on a man simply because he refused to be bought over. Before yesterday’s ruling, we […]