Tension is building up afresh in the Niger Delta after the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) declared on Friday that it was ending its 90-day cease fire. It told oil companies and the military to brace up for renewed attacks. The following reports examine the events surrounding the latest development.

PRESIDENT Umaru Yar’Adua on Thursday, June 26, 2009 proclaimed the unconditional amnesty to all Niger Delta militants in the creeks and those facing prosecution in the law courts.

I was injured in one of our Olympic qualifiers ie against Cote d’Ivoire. And the match was played here at the National Stadium. I was deliberately kicked by an opponent from behind. Initially, I thought it was just a minor injury.

Medium Term 2009-2013•Providing appropriate support to the efforts of the Federal Government to establish and carry through a credible DDR process which embodies resocialisation, capacity building and skills acquisition for ex-militants in the Niger Delta.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT/COMMUNITIES   SHOULD: I. Discourage further establishment of new militant camps by organising enlightenment campaigns to sensitise community people about   DDR process ; 2. Commit to participate in the DDR process ; 3. Expose criminal elements and their sponsors within communities. MILITANTS  SHOULD: 1.Support the DDR process by committing to enter and respect agreements reached. […]

If the Federal Government is serious about resolving the Niger Delta problem, (Post Amnesty ) now is the time to revisit the way forward – contained in the Niger Delta Technical Committee Report (NDTC) or (The Ledum Mitee Report) presented to the President in December 2008.

If the fingerprints, ballistic and biology (DNA profiling) sections of the Nigeria Police Forensic Laboratory could be developed to world-class standard, cases of violent crimes will be reduced

In screening nominees for the award, the committee looks out for the individual’s and organization’s creativity, skill and efficiency. The whole idea is simply to encourage those excelling in their fields to keep remaining at the top, tell those not yet there “someone is watching you and you can strive to be there by putting more effort”.

By Emma Amaize , George Onah & Sam Oyadongha FORTY three years ago, precisely on February 23, 1966, Isaac Adaka Boro, who headed an organization known as Niger Delta Volunteer Force, NDVF, told his field commanders – Samuel Owunaru and Nottingham Dick – that the die was cast. It was at a camp called Touton […]

The President set up a reform committee. The report of the committee has been approved. If the paper is implemented, we would have a new police force. I cannot talk of my strategies, but the results would show what we are doing. I want to concentrate on three items – welfare, training and intelligence led policing.

By Simon Ebegbulem Benin City – There is hardly any family  in Benin City , Edo state capital that you would not find either a son or daughter residing abroad. In most cases, their location  is either Italy , Spain or the Netherlands . To the uninitiated, living in Spain, Italy or the Netherlands is […]

TODAY, the final rites of passage would be completed with interment for an exceptional Nigerian, a man who dedicated his life to the struggle for improvement in all areas of our troubled national life – Chief Abdul-Ganiyu Oyesola Fawehinmi (SAN), better known to the rest of us as Gani.

AMAKIRI: Suit No. PHC/222?73 of 22-3-74 otherwise known as Amakiri Vs Iwowari case will go down in history as one of those legal battles that brought the late Chief Gani Fawehinmi to the consciousness of Nigerians.

Gani was very lively and had a very pleasant character and I’m not sure he had any dull moment. When we were together, he was always focused.

At his death, our government is both illegitimate and unaccountable. Like a malignant tumour, Maurice Iwu afflicts Nigeria’s electoral system with terminal illegitimacy. For some reason, those who are in a position to lance him affect inability and unwillingness to do so. If Gani were here, he would have trained his legal and campaigning guns at electoral alchemist that Maurice Iwu is.