Niger Delta Issues

A Pan Africanist and a World Citizen! THE TRAGIC NEWS has been received of the untimely death of Professor Claude Ake, the top-rate Nigerian political economist, killed along with 131 other passengers and nine crew members in the Boeing 727 airplane crash near Lagos on November 7 1996. Ake had just presided over a...

From CHRIS ANUCHA, PORT HARCOURT Tuesday, May 08 , 2012 Onyechere Ikoro is an indigene of Obite, Egiland, in Ogba/Egbema Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State, where the recent gas eruption occurred. He was living comfortably in his five-bed room apartment with members of his family until April 3, 2012. He...