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MEND hijacks vessel, captures 6 crew members
• Another Chevron facility blown up
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) true to its threat to begin Hurricane Moses has hijacked and captured six crew members from a chemical tanker, Siehem Peace at about 20 nautical miles from Escravos in Delta State. The [...]

 
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has raised an alarm that the Niger Delta risks being submerged by the ocean by 2080, if the current trend in global warning is not checked.
The Director, United Nations Environment Programme Division of Environmental Policy Implementation, Mr Ibrahim Thiaw said this in a key note address on climate change, [...]

 
 
 
At the height of his powers as coach of Nigeria in the early 90s, Clemens Westerhof styled himself a ‘Dutch-gerian’ – a Dutchman as well as a Nigerian.
Westerhof is widely credited with the glory the Super Eagles enjoyed in the 90s – triumph at the 1994 AfricaCup of Nations in Tunisia and a first-ever World Cup [...]

The history of crude Oil and Gas development in this oil-bearing area and its contribution to the economy of Nigeria up to the peaks of the oil boom in 2001. Crude Oil and Gas production are the main stay of the Nigeria economy, which provide almost 90% of Nigeria’s export earnings (NNPC 1993:1). Exploration [...]

                               
 Myth in the taxonomy of oral literature is a long narrative under the spoken genre. it is a story handed down from olden times, about heroes and superhuman beings, an explanation of natural events or beliefs and about the early history of a people. Therefore Ogba myth as a concept is linked [...]

Towns and the three  Ogba Groups
Over the years, Ogbas established roughly forty towns in aliulo i.e. “home land”, as distinct from Ogboru or “work place”. the number of towns varied slightly from time to time as a few old sites were abandoned and new ones were established.
EGI: AKABUKA, AKABUTA, EDE, EGITA, EREMA, IBEWA, ITU, OBAGI, [...]

There are few communities in which the culture and tradition of the people, as exhibted in their daily lives and habits, provide so much evidence of their background and origin as in Ali-Ogba: The elaborate greeting ceremonies, the praise names and titles, the ancient sayings or proverbs and slogans, the peculiar traditional festivals, the obsequies, [...]