Nigerian Times

Mr. Steve Mufson, I have already posted the following commentary in my response to your article on Nigerian Militant Speaks Out on Oil . The critical issues I have raised should be addressed in your reaction to the e-mails from the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND). I am right here in the Niger Delta and my families stretch from Opobo to Buguma to Ikot Amba to Abia. I am on locations in Bonny and Port Harcourt. So, I can tell the truth from my eye-witness accounts. I have addressed the Niger Delta crisis on the BBC and on the Nigerian Times International Forum and Nigerian Times blog. See: Nigerian Times: SHELL, ASARI DOKUBO AND THE NIGER DELTA CRISIS I support the just cause of MEND, but what has the leaders of MEND done with the millions of dollars they have made from illegal oil bunkering and ransoms from the foreign oil workers they kidnapped and released? Most of the leaders of these so called militant groups are partners in crime with the oligarchy of the ru...

" We told them that this is not due to government neglect but to some imbalances in the system and the inability of some oil companies to meet the Memoranda of Understanding they signed with the people." ~ Gov. Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa, in Nigeria , on how he secured the release of the local hostages of the militants in Southern-Ijaw Local Government Area. This is how the PDP governors have incited Niger Delta militants against the multinational oil companies. They misappropriate the revenue allocations for their states and lie to the militants that the multinational companies have failed in their obligations to the host communities. The irony of corruption in Nigeria is the complicity of Nigerian churches and mosques. The fact is Nigerian pagans are more honest and transparent than the so called Christians and Muslims. Nigerians fear the Juju than they fear the Almighty God. I have since passed a vote of No Confidence in Nigerian Christians and Muslims, because I have ...

Daring unidentified gunmen kidnapped the 3-year-old son of Eze Francis Amadi, a prominent Igbo town chief in the Niger Delta on Thursday, July 12, 2007. The kidnappers are on rampage in the Niger Delta and becoming more desperate by the day as even the innocent children of expatriates and rich oil contractors are no longer safe in the Niger Delta of Nigeria. But most people in the western world and mainstream western media don't know that the ruling political party in Nigeria is responsible for the lawlessness and terrorism in the oil rich south of the 8th largest oil producer in the world. Read the full report .