Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has shown a willingness to offer terror-accused Henry Okah an olive branch to pacify the volatile Niger Delta.
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/ 22 November 2010
Mend threatened to cripple the country’s oil sector after Nigeria’s military confirmed it arrested militants believed to have kidnapped oil workers.
Nigeria does not know exactly how much of the black gold it churns but one thing is certain — three years of attacks have led to a sharp decline.
Oil rose nearly 1% on Monday, as tensions between Israel and Iran stoked supply concerns and traders doubted Saudi Arabia’s promise to pump more oil.
A rebel group from Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta said it attacked two major oil pipelines there on Monday in what it called a message to the United States. In an email, a faction of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta said its commandos had carried out attacks against the pipelines located at Isaka River and Abonnema River.
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/ 20 February 2008
A rebel group from Nigeria’s oil producing Niger Delta demanded on Wednesday that lawyers, relatives and the Red Cross be allowed to see their detained leader, Henry Okah, to confirm he is alive. The government denied a report by the rebel Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta that Okah had been shot dead.