Warri, Nigeria News

By Ifeyinwa Obi Insinuations that the eastern ports may be totally lacking in essential equipment, including tug boats may be actually untrue, as the management of the Nigerian Ports Authority said weekend it has eight tug boats in the eastern ports, out of which six were fully operational.

By Emma Arubi WARRI - Ijaw militants in the creeks weekend hijacked a speedboat conveying about twenty Itsekiri passengers from Escravos to Warri.

By Emma Amaize MANAGING Director, Clemline Services Limited, Warri and vice -chairman, Oporoza Federated Communities in Gbaramatu Kingdom, theatre of the Joint Task Force /militants' face-off in Delta State, Apostle Clement Tonfawei, was one of those that escaped from Oporoza community the day the security outfit, incensed by the attack on its ...

Nigerian Police said on Monday that it had launched investigation into the death of Bayelsa United FC skipper Abel Tabor.

While some factors and reasons were identified as responsible for the poor, dismal state of education in Iwereland, at a lecture to mark the 24th anniversary of Alpha/May Club in Lagos over the weekend, the attitude and character of Itsekiri leaders have worsened the situation.

Nigerian telecoms operator Mobitel has selected Alvarion to provide 802.16e WiMAX services for underserved areas throughout the country.

Excerpts: Newswatch : There have been claims and counter claims concerning the latest JTF onslaught against the Niger Delta militants during which you overrun Camp 5 led by Tompolo.

A fleeing Ijaw woman baths her child in a canoes prior to their evacuation Ogbe-Ijoh jetty in Niger Delta town of Warri Many of the people displaced in the Niger Delta by the current military offensive say they are eager to return home.

MEMBER representing the Warri Federal Constituency in the Federal House of Representatives, Mr.

AN Ijaw and Itsekiri coalition peace group has appealed to President Umaru Yar'Adua to genuinely resolve the main issues of underdevelopment which is at the root of the current impasse and bloodbath in the region.

Nigerian security forces said they had freed three more Filipino hostages in the oil-producing Niger Delta on Saturday and vowed to press on with an offensive that has forced hundreds of villagers to flee.

EARLY Sunday evening, May 17, my phone rang. The caller sounded agitated: "Sir, they are bombing us, we are being killed, help us.

It also rescued 10 of the hostages kidnapped by them. Seized were anti-aircraft guns, dynamites and speed boats, although the militants succeeded in blowing up the Warri-Escravos Crude Oil pipeline operated by Chevron and the Abiteye Gas Pipeline both in the state.

The Nigerian army said on Sunday it had freed four more foreign hostages from the western Niger Delta during an operation to flush out militants which rights groups say has displaced thousands of villagers.

His weird costume on the screen on one of the cable television stations may easily project him as an unserious person.

FORMER Information Commissioner and Ijaw national Leader, Chief Edwin Clark, yesterday called on President Musa Yar' Adua to urgently investigate the immediate cause of the shoot-out between operatives of Joint Task Force and militants around Okerenkoko community in the Escravos river area of Delta State on Wednesday.

The police in Warri, Delta State, has arrested the leader of Association of Physically Challenged Persons in the state for allegedly selling without the consent of other members, the five computer sets, two printers and accessories donated to the association by a dredging company.

PANDEMONIUM broke out, Tuesday, in Sapele, Delta State as gunmen shot dead a community youth leader in Amukpe in what appeared to be a counter attack when a rival gang laid siege to Sapele-Warri Road in the town, and burnt down an unspecified number of buildings and vehicles.

THE South-South coordinator of Peoples Democratic Party Supporters Network, Dr. Ufuoma Omakara, has expressed satisfaction with the performance of Delta State governor, Dr.

THE cream of Delta State government, politics, business and royalty will today hold a reception in honour of Vanguard editor, Mideno Bayagbon, at Wellington Hotel, Effurun-Warri. Organised under the auspices of the Jeddo Stakeholders Forum, a think tank of Okpe intellectuals and Elite, the reception will have Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta ...