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''Barely 12 hours into our ceasefire, the military Joint Task Force has dispatched seven gun boats" Jomo Gbomo More...
Relaxed ambiance in military base of Nigeria's tense Delta (16 July 09)
The relaxed atmosphere at the barracks belies the reality outside, where troops face off with militants in the creeks and swamps of the Niger Delta More...
Reps Blame Oil Firms for Militants Attacks (16 July 09)
"How do these boys who blow up the facilities take away the products from Nigeria? Where do they steal the oil to?" More...
FG: Militants Can’t Dictate to Us on JTF (16 July 09)
The new Defence Minister, Major-General Godwin Abbe, has frowned on the ultimatum given by MEND that the government should withdraw the JTF from the oil-producing region More...
Failed States Index: Nigeria Ranked 15 out of 177 Nations (16 July 09)
The newly released Failed State Index 2009 was published by the United States think-tank and an independent research organisation More...
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a 2007 hostage relives his ordeal
Larry Plake was just outside the control tower on his way to bed aboard the Cheyenne, an oil barge anchored six miles off the coast, when he heard the shots. A veteran rig worker for Global Industries, Plake, a Texan, had just finished his evening shift and was in a bad mood
The End Game: MEND Versus Federal Republic Of Nigeria.
The author, a supporter of MEND's cause, employs a commonly used analogy in political struggles, (chess) but uses it to put the current face off between MEND and the military/government in a light that is both sympathetic, intelligent yet still simple to comprehend.
I am Hungry, please re-brand me
I am Nigeria. I have millions of acres of arable land and billions of cubic litres of water, but I cannot feed myself.... I drive the latest cars in the world but have no roads... My school has no teacher and my classroom has no roof. Click here for a thought provoking piece from writer Salisu Suleiman
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incident and abduction database
Brand new layout updated: 13.07.09. Click here to view our 2009 database. Also available are the full archived details of 2006/07/08. We continue to monitor the who's where's why's and how many's of the ongoing trend of militant attacks and hostage taking in Nigeria.
shell - 14 years on...
Shell denies any wrongdoing. It says the payout was a “humanitarian gesture”; some of the money will go to a new trust fund for the Ogoni.
ON JUNE 8th Royal Dutch Shell agreed to pay out $15.5m to the Ogoni people
Life at TomPolo's Camp 5
TomPollo's military camp amazed me.
His major military outlet, Camp 5 was located several nautical miles from Warri, the economic hub of Delta State and over 150 miles from Bayelsa, the Ijaw's significantly homogenous homestead.
pirates copy ideas for ransom riches
Reading down the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) 'Live Piracy Report', a catalogue of piracy reports from across the world, the same two names are cropping up with disturbing frequency -- Somalia and Nigeria.