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A community portal about Nigeria with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa and the most populous country on the African continent. Nigeria shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, Niger in the north, and borders the Gulf of Guinea in the south. Since 1991, its capital has been the centrally-located city of Abuja ; previously, the Nigerian government was headquartered in Lagos.
In the ongoing set of problems that is the relationship between Chevron and Nigeria, and as the trial of Bowoto v. Chevron, continues in San Francisco, we have this latest report from Saturday, November 15th, where the pipeline facility in the western part of the Niger Delta was shut down and while the actual reason for this was not reported, speculation was that a militant group was responsible for the damage.
The relevance to the Bowoto case is the organization responsible seems to...
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Obinna Ezeobi Lagos is Nigeria's commercial hub, a city that is creating wealth quickly and growing chaotically. Its corruption-corroded infrastructure is losing the race with growth, and its boom areas along the coast could lose their bet with Mother Nature. Once a center for Portuguese slave traders, then a British colony, the city is growing 8% a year. About 6,000 people move to Lagos every day, adding to its already bursting population of 15 million to 18 million people. The U.N...
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Abuja - Nigerian militants have released British citizen David Melford, who was abducted two weeks ago, a spokesman for the military in the oil-rich Niger Delta region said Saturday.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sagir Musa told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that no ransom was paid to secure the release of the expatriate, who was abducted in Eleme in Rivers State.
Militant groups in the Niger Delta, such as the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, often attack oil installations and kidnap...
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AL-JAZEERA Nigeria's
main rebel group has claimed it launched a series of attacks on the
Nigerian army, killing 29 soldiers, but the military has denied there
has been any fighting.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend) said in
an email statement on Saturday that near-simultaneous battles had taken
place in the three main oil producing states of southern Nigeria.
The
group...
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A New ministry specifically designed to address issues of the Niger delta region of Nigeria has been created by his Excellency President Umaru Yaradua.
This new development is part of the presidents sweeping changes to the country's ministries
in an apparent move to consolidate power.
In the past the Delta region did have a parastatal the Niger delta development commission which initially handled numerous successful development projects in the delta region but in my opinion...
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The Niger Delta Non-Violent Movement has declared that elders in the area with whom government continues to fraternise are failures whop should not be relied upon in determining what is best for the oil-rich area.
- Nigeria: Niger Delta Committee Demands Memorandum From Ohanaeze (allafrica.com)
- Nigeria: Niger Delta - U.S. Opposed to Military Action (allafrica.com)
- Nigeria: Niger Delta Ministry Versus NDDC (news.search.yahoo.com)
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Gunmen have hijacked a cargo ship in the Niger Delta and kidnapped at least ten people on board, a Nigerian ...
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Suspected militants have hijacked a vessel ferrying materials from Singapore to the Escravos Gas-to-Liquid (EGTL) project in Nigeria's Niger Delta oil region, thus putting the US$5.9 billion project in jeopardy, the local press reported Monday. It ...
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And land in Lagos is equivalent to oil in the Niger Delta. So when I took possession, all was well, I pay N20,000 to elders who are 60 years and above every ...
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All is now set for the presentation of the 2009 budget to the National Assembly by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua this week.
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To the national president of PFN Women's Wing, Pastor Helen Oritsejafor, the cNiger Delta Crisis can only be resolved through a concerted effort of all the stakeholders.
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- Sycophancy and the Niger Delta struggle (rss.topix.net)
A pipeline operated by US major Chevron has been sabotaged in Nigeria's Niger Delta, forcing the company to shut in onshore production in the Delta State.
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With the elusive peaceful resolution of the Niger Delta imbroglio, the inevitability of a violent change is no longer questionable.
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Abuja, Nigeria - The resurgence of attacks on oil facilities in Nigeria's Niger Delta oil region is due to the recent arrest of 22 Filipinos and their vessel over the stealing of Nigeria's crude oil, the military task force deployed to the region to ...
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I n the incidence involving the pipeline explosion, six employees of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) were burnt to death as they tried to repair a leaking crude oil pipe. The company spokesman confirmed that a fire broke out in the course ...
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