Article: VOA NEWS: COMMUNITY LEADER DEMANDS SPEEDY DEVELOPMENT OF THE NIGER DELTA

Article: VOA NEWS: NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT SENDS MORE TROOPS TO ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 16, 2008 ;     607 words ... ... Following developments in the Niger Delta is VOA reporter Chinedu Offor ... have been deployed to the Niger Delta by the Nigerian government. The government says it wants ... by militant groups in the Niger Delta. The city of Port Harcourt ...

Article: Nigerian government calls on youths in Niger ...
Xinhua News Agency;  February 12, 2007 ;     337 words ...Nigerian government calls on youths in Niger Delta region to stop hostage taking ... has appealed to youths in the Niger Delta to stop hostage taking, claiming ... kidnapped in the oil-producing Niger Delta. Jankada advised members of ...

Article: VOA NEWS: NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT PLEDGES TO END GAS ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 8, 2008 ;     522 words ...The Voice of America issued the following story: By Chinedu Offor Nigerian authorities say the country loses about $2.5 billion annually to gas flaring, while thousands of people in and around the oil-rich Delta region live in grinding poverty. The authorities have promised to set a deadline for

Article: Nigeria : Groups Call for Suspension of Oil Exploration in ...
TendersInfo;  December 18, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... vulnerable persons in the Niger Delta and other resource-bearing ... to halt gas flaring in the Niger Delta, the Nigerian government has demonstrated a lack of ... conflicts and criminality in the Niger Delta region and particularly in ...

Article: Indian workers flee Niger Delta after abductions
The Hindustan Times;  June 11, 2007 ;     575 words ... ... Oronto Douglas, chairman of a Niger-Delta-based NGO Community Defence ... delivered a manifesto of the Niger Delta people to the Nigerian government. The manifesto, he said ... enduring solution to the Niger Delta crisis. Part of the manifesto ...

Article: MEND threatens new attacks.(International)(Movement for the ...
The Oil Daily;  December 11, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), which says it ... exchange for "hostages of Niger Delta origin in Nigerian government hands". The threats were ... the oil companies and the Nigerian government, we have resolved to be ...

Article: VOA NEWS: NIGERIA'S NIGER DELTA MILITANTS SENT BUSH ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 18, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... dispute in the oil-rich Niger Delta region. The group said ... From the creeks of the Niger Delta, he told VOA the Nigerian government also has 24 hours to apologize ... mission to the creeks of the Niger Delta. "Doctor Christopher Ikeyor ...