Archive for November, 2008


Cheat Sheet Week 48 2008

Monday 24 November 2008 Gunmen kidnap Bulgarian: 8 gunmen kidnapped a Bulgarian in Aba, Abia State, 20 November, demanding ransom of N500 million ($4.2 million) according to private security sources. The... Read More


Friday 28th November 2008

 Thieves force LNG to declare force majeure  16 arrested over militant activity  Militants sent to anger management classes  More deaths from teething syrup  Court adjourns Pfizer drug case ... Read More


Thursday 27th November 2008

 Bulgarian hostage ‘well’  Army in Niger Delta crackdown  Killer mixture: Death toll now 29 in Lagos  Nigeria says no to further oil production cuts  Youths invade Shell office ... Read More


Wednesday 26th November 2008

 Military battle bunkerers  New panel to fight oil theft, attacks  Communities demand an end to gas flaring  FG to revoke Lagos-Kano rail contract for fraud  U.S. jury retires in Chevron... Read More


Tuesday 25th November 2008

 MEND warns of wider campaign  Ijaw group want JTF commander removed  Presidency orders release of certificate to Ribadu  Arik awaits Airbus jets for London flights  U.S. hotel plans $12... Read More


Monday 24th November 2008

 Gunmen kidnap Bulgarian  Mend again deny involvement in arms purchase  Robbers shoot 4 dead in bank raid  Fresh bid to revamp constitution  Ribadu blocked from graduating  Police to... Read More


Friday 21st November 2008

 Gunmen attack navy near Shell facility  Shoot out at Escravos oil terminal  Chevron suspends contracts after pipeline attack  MEND & military in verbal war  MEND denies arms deal with... Read More


Thursday 20th November 2008

 Rights group want OBJ removed as UN ambassador  Satellite can’t be recovered  Search on for missing nuclear, radioactive sources  Nigeria now number 2 for piracy  Primary schools... Read More


Wednesday 19th November 2008

 New ministers nominated  Draft 2009 budget delayed again  Chevron: Force Majeure on some output  Six soldiers get life sentence for selling arms to MEND  Electricity generation from nuclear... Read More


Tuesday 18th November 2008

 Breaking News: Pirates attack vessel in Addax field  Hijacked vessel and expatriate crew released  Military explains renewed attacks on oil facilities  6 suspected pirates nabbed off Bakassi ... Read More


Monday 17th November 2008

 Ship hijacked inbound to Warri  22 Filipinos arrested over oil theft  Chevron pipeline sabotaged  Six Shell staff killed in explosion  JTF, militants in five-hour shoot-out  Shell employee... Read More


Cheat Sheet Week 47 2008

Monday 10 November 2008 MEND free 4 hostages, keep Britons: MEND in an e-mail statement announced the release on Sunday of a Ukrainian and three Nigerians kidnapped September 9 but also said it would hold... Read More


Cheat Sheet Week 46 2008

Monday 10 November 2008 MEND free 4 hostages, keep Britons: MEND in an e-mail statement announced the release on Sunday of a Ukrainian and three Nigerians kidnapped September 9 but also said it would hold... Read More


Friday 14th November 2008

 JTF warns militants in N’Delta  Main phone gateway almost repaired  Last-minute changes to 2009 budget plan  Shell contains oil spill caused by sabotage  WHO renews polio immunisation... Read More


Thursday 13th November 2008

 Cameroon rebels exchanged hostages for prisoners?  INTELS boss assassinated in Port Harcourt  Satellite battery dead, not lost in space  Man with 86 wives released  OPEC must consider if... Read More


Wednesday 12th November 2008

 Court sacks governor  Cameroon rebels release hostages  Presidential panel asks MEND to free British hostages  German leader ‘concerned’ about Niger Delta  Uncertainty in YRD’s... Read More


Tuesday 11th November 2008

 MEND threaten violence if attacked  JTF troops placed on alert in Bayelsa, Rivers  Bakassi hostage update  Militants attack Soku  Ukraine confirms hostage release  Top officer orders... Read More


Monday 10th November 2008

 MEND free 4 hostages, keep Britons  Gunmen kill four military personnel, Shell worker in Bayelsa  Gunmen attack army at Chevron facility  Six navy personnel killed in gun battle  President... Read More


Cheat Sheet Week 45 2008

Monday 3 November 2008 Oil crew kidnapped off Cameroon: 7 French, 2 Cameroonians and a Tunisian were kidnapped by gunmen on Friday from the vessel Bourbon Sagitta, contracted by Total, off the coast of... Read More


Friday 7th November 2008

 MEND admits presence of foreign instructors  Military confirms Lebanese hostage released  Bakassi militia retracts report hostage killed  Oil thieves clash with military, one dead  German... Read More


Thursday 6th November

 MEND free hostages  JTF deny paying $3m to kill militant leader  Bakassi militia claim hostage killed in rescue bid  Yar’Adua congratulates Obama  Funding crisis is trouble for Nigeria... Read More


Tuesday 5th November 2008

 MEND says it foiled plot to kill commander  Lawmakers approve budget supplement Nigeria & South Africa discuss repatriation fee Total expands Obite gas project Nigeria cancels crude... Read More


Tuesday 4th November 2008

 Gunmen kidnap Lebanese engineer  Ex-governors to face corruption trial in Nigeria  Nigeria-Ghana gas pipeline to start next month  Nigeria wants emergency talks on DR Congo crisis  Yar’Adua... Read More


Monday 3rd November 2008

 Oil crew kidnapped off Cameroon  Fire razes 400 shops in Kano  Anti-graft drive threatened  EFCC takes credit for naira’s stability  South Korea offers to bail Nigeria out of energy... Read More



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