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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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