Article: VOA NEWS: NIGERIA LAUNCHES NEW DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR NIGER DELTA

Article: Nigeria looks to mega projects in Niger Delta to ...
Xinhua News Agency;  May 25, 2009 ;     496 words ... ... to mega projects in Niger Delta to end turmoil LAGOS ... centers in the troubled Niger Delta region, where the ... Nigeria's Minister of Niger Delta Affairs Obong Ufot Ekaette unveiled the development plan at the weekend in a ...

Article: Nigeria works out plan to resolve oil-rich Niger ...
Xinhua News Agency;  April 19, 2006 ;     518 words ... ... restive oil-rich Niger Delta crisis, local newspaper ... coastal states of the Niger Delta covering employment ... resources. Under the development plan, Obasanjo said the ... to link the backward Niger Delta region with Lagos ...

Article: VOA NEWS: NIGERIAN PRESIDENT PLEDGES 'CONSTRUCTIVE ENGAGEMENT' IN ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 1, 2008 ;     676 words ... ... violence in the oil-rich Niger Delta is the best for the ... an infrastructural development plan to address the grievances ... to the crisis in the Niger Delta region, we have sustained ... we have set up a Niger Delta Ministry to anchor ...

Article: Roundup: Vandalism rampant Niger delta region of ...
Xinhua News Agency;  July 12, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Roundup: Vandalism rampant Niger delta region of Nigeria -- By Bosen ... foreigners have been seized in the Niger Delta since early 2006. Though almost ... groups have since mushroomed in the Niger Delta and have taken advantage of the ...

Article: Niger Delta: THE TRUE STORY
New African;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... dependent on resources existing in the Niger Delta where the mere whisper of unrest sends ... threaten Nigeria's oil production. The Niger Delta is a vast system of wetlands and forests ... geographic definition. Today, however, the Niger Delta is more widely referred to as a political ...

Article: VOA NEWS: NIGERIA'S NIGER DELTA MILITANTS ISSUE NEW ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 16, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said it intends to spread its ... questions of the Ijaw people of the Niger Delta region. He told VOA that the problem of the Niger Delta is a Nigeria problem. "The other regions ...

Article: NIGERIA: SLOW START FOR NIGER DELTA AMNESTY
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  August 11, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... insurgency in the country's oil-rich Niger Delta region. Under a government initiative ... monitors the inflow of small arms into the Niger Delta. "The quantity of arms being turned ... reflect the high number of arms in the Niger Delta." Militants unimpressed That few weapons ...