On 3 March, the state governors decided to block a vote that could have set in motion President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s enforced resignation on medical grounds. This has won his supporters in Abuja more time but does nothing to resolve the crisis caused by the power vacuum at the centre of government.
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Nigeria: Reappearance of the President Has Worsened the Political Paralysis - and the Splits in the PDP Government
A new report on how the operations of an oil producing company is affecting the human rights and living conditions in the Niger Delta has been published by a church-based investor and membership organizations.
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Nigeria: New Report Says Environment And Human Rights Neglected
Acting President, Goodluck Jonathan, has been urged to take immediate steps to ensure that the peace deal the Federal Government entered into with militants in the troubled Niger Delta does not collapse in order to save the region and indeed the nation another round of trauma arising from hostilities and violence in the area.
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Nigeria: Jonathan Urged to Address Niger Delta Militants
ANGERED by the continued absence of President Umaru Yar’Adua and his refusal to transfer power to Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, about 50 militant groups under the aegis of Network of Freedom Fighters in Niger Delta, NFF, yesterday, threatened to launch fresh violence in the troubled region.
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Nigeria: Militias Threaten Fresh Violence Over Yar’Adua
Oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) has announced that it has halted some flow stations in southern Niger Delta following a pipeline leak.
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Nigeria: Oil Firm Shuts Facilities After Pipeline Attack
Towards finding a lasting solution to the incessant cases of youths restiveness and militancy in the constantly troubled Niger Delta region, the governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, in collaboration with the Niger Delta Development Commission, have announced the offer of sponsorships to 370 youths from the region.
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Nigeria: Rivers, NDDC Splash Film Scholarships on Niger Deltans
Following Federal Government’s amnesty programme for repentant Niger Delta militants, which had culminated in a ceasefire and significant increase in crude oil production in the region, United States oil major, Chevron, has shut down its Makaraba-Utonana pipeline in Delta State.
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Nigeria: Militants Attack Chevron Pipeline
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today launched an assessment of the impact of contamination from oil across the Ogoni region of the Niger Delta in Nigeria, which has been plagued by local unrest and ecological damage in recent years.
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Nigeria: UN Assesses Oil-Contaminated Region
For the first time in years, Nigeria’s Niger Delta seems to be looking up.
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Nigeria: Yar’Adua Should Draw Up Roadmap to Delta Peace
DARK clouds of anxiety, frustration and confusion hung over most parts of Namibia late yesterday as the Electoral Commission of Namibia failed to release any official election results on the first day after the polls closed in Namibia’s fourth post-Independence Presidential and National Assembly elections.
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Namibia: Anxiety As Election Officials Delay Results