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Article: Nigerian govt. reassures people in Niger Delta of security
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- September 29, 2004
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Nigerian govt. reassures people in Niger Delta of security
ABUJA, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- The Nigerian government on Wednesday
reassured Nigerians living in the Niger Delta, south Nigeria, that it
had the capacity to contain any threat to destabilize the corporate
existence of the country.
After the routine Wednesday meeting of the Federal Executive
Council, Information Minister Chukwuemeka Chikelu told reporters that
the crisis in the Niger Delta was of "serious concern to the
government."
On Monday, the Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force (NDPVF), an
armed militia group, announced that it would launch an "all-time war
against Nigeria" from Oct. 1 and advised all oil majors to leave the ...