AT A disused military compound in Obubra, north of Nigeria’s south-eastern city of Calabar, hundreds of men in white baseball caps emblazoned with the word amnesty are taking an unusual exam. They are being tested on peace and love. If you dey [are] together for one place and you get food to eat, you must […]
No fewer than 11 people were reported dead yesterday when a bomb blast hit the Mammy Market of the Mogadishu Military Cantonment popularly known as Abacha Barracks in Abuja. Our reporters gathered that the blast occurred in the heart of the roasted fish section of the market at about 7:30pm, leaving three people dead on […]
IJAW Youths Welfare Association, IYWA, has alerted the United Nations that over 20,000 residents of 11 communities in Burutu and Bomadi Local Government Areas of Delta State have been under siege by soldiers, deployed by the Joint Task Force, JTF, on the Niger-Delta, to their homelands for upwards one month in the search for wanted […]
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has appointed Mr Emmanuel Egbagbe, as his senior special assistant on Infrastructure Development Matters and Alhaji Saidu Yusuf Dutsi, as his senior special assistant on political matters. The appointments came as Jonathan accepted the resignation of his Senior Special Assistant on Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Timi Alaibe, who is seeking nomination to […]
Prince Tonye Princewill was a gubernatorial candidate of the ACN in the 2007 general elections in Rivers State. In this interview with James Ume he spoke with a burning passion about the Niger-Delta region and the amnesty programme. He also explains why he has chosen to support a Northern candidate in the person of Atiku […]
EXPLOSIVES rocked the venue of a campaign rally of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant, Chief Beimor Rufus-Spiff, at Opolo, Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state on Wednesday, but no life was lost. Party faithful that gathered at the venue scampered for safety as the explosives went off around 3.45 p.m. The explosives, Nigerian […]
The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Onyeabo Ihejirika, has advised criminals in the Niger Delta to embrace peace, warning that the military will no longer condone lawlessness in the region. General Ihejirika, who was on a fact finding tour of the Delta creeks, on Sunday, where the renegade militant leader, John Togo, was threatening the […]
Barely four months to the general election, President Goodluck Jonathan’s kinsmen in Bayelsa State have pledged to mobilise and enlighten the electorate on the need to return him to office in 2011. Those who averred that they were irrevocably committed to return President Jonathan to office, spearheading the enlightenment campaign on why he should be […]
President Goodluck Jonathan’s bid for the 2011 presidential election received a boost on Saturday when the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) throwing its weight behind his aspiration. In a statement by MEND’s spokesperson, Jomo Gbomo, the movement, which has claimed responsibility for several terrorist attacks in the country, hailed the Presidents […]
The Commissioner on the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) from Edo State, Mr. Don Omorodion has sympathized with the family of late Nationalist, Chief Anthony Enahoro, describing the Elderstatesman as a fighter even at old age. Speaking to members of the Enahoro family, when he led officials of the NDDC to pay […]
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