Daily Independent (Lagos)

Nigeria: Niger Delta - War Spreads to Ondo, Edo, Bayelsa

21 May 2009


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"To take one example, Shell has lost most of its production in the East or is completely shut down, and the irony of it is that onshore oil is the cheapest to produce, and therefore the return on that investment is greater, but that is where we have most of the shut-ins. The financial loss is huge. I mean, multiply today's oil price by a million barrel per day."

At $60 per barrel, the loss is calculated to be $60 million or about N8.7 billion per day.

Ajugomobia said domestic fuel supply has improved significantly because "we have conquered the supply problem. There are still some distribution bottlenecks so you will still see some queues in some areas of some cities, but we will get around that as well."

Minister of Information and Communications, Dora Akunyili; her minister of state, Ikra Bilbis; Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Adamu Aliero; and Minister of Environment, John Odey, also briefed the press on the the FEC meeting.

Odey added that "we went to Council today with an oil spill response boat and other equipment that will be used in Niger Delta and other parts of the country".

The FEC approved the purchase of the boat and equipment for the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) at a cost of N558.99 million.

Aliero announced the FEC's decision to set up a committee headed by the National Planning Minister to review his request for variation of costs, as well as prioritise and suggest funding for abandoned engineering and infrastructure projects in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

By Ofonime Umanah (Port Harcourt),Chesa Chesa (Abuja) and Tunke-Aye Bisina (Asaba)

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Author: EYE OF PEACE
Thu May 21 23:25:52 2009

sorry to say this, Nigeri as country lacks a sincere leader,hence everything goes in this nation. take for intsance we call ourselves oil gaint, without a REFINARY that is working to capacity and we are talking of exporting crud oil and importing PMS,what about the rest of the residue? this is what the leaders shold be considering not all this talk on we are trying to see how to get fule across the country.

Author: kachinze
Mon May 25 15:36:59 2009

i will advise the militant to produce the body of the soldiers,and end the hostitility. figthting the govment will only worsen the case of the niger deltan people.they should try to achieve thiere agitatoins through dailogue.

Author: Freeman
Sun May 24 13:09:23 2009

all these military opersations are ridiculous african leaders are ready to sacrifice their poeple for a peace of bread offered to them by their masters. Stupid How comes a giant oil producer of oil (6th in the world) run out of fuel or fuel price sky rocketing. let MEND be a challange may be the gov't can change the policy I don't support the war , but the gov't is ridiculous

Author: kaparah
Fri May 22 12:13:40 2009

Amnesty International should shut its frigging mouth and get out Nigeria's business. For it to say use "reasonable force" is tantamount to condoning, indirectly, the use of any force, at all, by the civilian politicians to accomplish what should have been a democratic approach of dialogue with the minority’s demand for its right to co-exist peacefully in its homeland without harassment by the majority. If the military juntas of the past had been reluctant in using any force, whatsoever, to 'Keep Nigeria One" why is a corrupt, greedy civilian govt using this undemocratic approach to compel compliance when the same govt cannot even compel foreign oil companies to stop gas flaring and polluting the local land, air and waters? The world sat by sending subliminal messages to the "democratic" govt to continue the use of “reasonable force”, (hook, hook, wink, wink), as long as the uncaring govt keeps the oil pipeline flowing to the West for their consumption, regardless of the effects of pollution on the lives of the locals. What is more shocking is the do-nothing attitude of the national assembly who are supposed to be the representatives of all Nigerian people, not the defender of the Executive branch's brutality – whatever happens to the role of "checks and balances" between the separate arms of the govt? This civilian govt deserves to be overthrown immediately and let us go back to old days of military rule. At least, there were some peaceful order in the land - the only people that suffered were the politicians. What we have learned in the last 2 years is that democracy by civilian politicians does not necessarily guarantee freedom and peace but misery and death due to the greed of the so-called people's representatives. What a sham.

Author: felix_zebulon
Fri May 22 16:40:48 2009

HELLO PEOPLE, am k-ci from bayelsa state, i want to tell the federal government that they should make peace for them to save life of women and children. to stop millitant they can not because it is very had except they conply to their needs

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