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Israel kills 4 Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants in West Bank
Four militants from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) group have been killed in an Israeli military operation in the West Bank. The PIJ, active in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, said the four men were members of its organisation. According to the ministry of Health in Ramallah, the four men were between 20 and 24 years old.…
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Corrupt Amnesty Officials delaying training projects for ex-agitators, says Dikio
The Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (rtd), has explained that training projects for ex-agitators have not taken off because he is not willing to continue with corrupt practices bugging the system. Dikio in a statement signed on Wednesday by his Special Assistant on Media, Nneotaobase Egbe, said he met an entrenched system of inducements, kickbacks…
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IYC makes u-turn on Jonathan’s defeat, vows to continue struggle for resource control
The Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, has contradicted its earlier disposition to the outcome of last Saturday’s Presidential election where it commended President Goodluck Jonathan for accepting defeat at the poll and promised not to resort to attacking pipeline and oil infrastructure. Now, it has vowed to carry out a hostile response to the defeat of Jonathan. President of the group,…
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Fear of attacks: Shell shuts down flow stations in Bayelsa
Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company, SNEPCo, has reportedly shut down some of its flow stations in Southern Ijaw and Ekeremor Local Government Areas of Bayelsa state because of anxiety that ex-militants may attack the facilities following the outcome of the presidential election. The incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan, who lost last Saturday’s presidential election to the President-elect, Gen Muhammadu Buhari…
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Insight: Why Nigeria’s restive oil region will only accept Jonathan
The most impressive building in Otuoke, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s home town in the oil producing Niger Delta, is the multi-storey mansion complex he has built for himself and close family while in office. A few hundred meters away, the street where he grew up is a jumble of rusting iron-roofed shacks. Down a dirt side alley, Happiness Ebi smokes…
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Ex-militants pass vote of confidence on President Jonathan
Leaders of the third batch ex-militants under the Federal Government amnesty programme in Edo State have passed a vote of confidence on President Goodluck Jonathan and called on all Nigerians to re-elect him on February 14 2015. Campaign Telete, Coordinator of the third phase of Amnesty Group, Edwin Ojujoh, his Adviser and Edah Akikoromor who is secretary of ex-militants in…
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