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Buhari picks Dokubo and Sylva to appease Delta ahead of 2019 elections

Just shy of a year before the presidential elections, President Muhammadu Buhari is already thinking of running again and has [...]

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All Progressives Congress
Charles Quaker Dokubo
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Goodluck Jonathan
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Muhammadu Buhari
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Members of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) armed group, September 2008.

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Buhari chooses another former army officer to manage lucrative 2021 Niger Delta amnesty budget

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Tompolo, then MEND leader, in 2009, with Nigerian President Umaru Yar'adua, accepting amnesty.

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New minister of oil-rich Niger Delta, Godswill Akpabio, highly contested

The new minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Obot Akpabio, appointed on August 21, has established his legitimacy and authority [...]

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Timipre Sylva becomes Buhari's oil master at last

Timipre Sylva, who served as governor of the oil-rich Bayelsa State from 2008 to 2012, will have waited a long [...]

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New Oyo governor Oluwaseyi Makinde's penchant for the oil sector

Until now a behind-the-scenes player, Oluwaseyi Makinde, head of Oyo, is also a powerful oil player.

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Buhari VS Saraki run through of the petroleum industry bill debacle

In the space of four years, the Nigerian president has been unable to gain any traction on this crucial piece [...]

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Delta State militants change tack to move into oil security

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The secrets of Demex, the trader selling Russian oil in West Africa

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Buhari picks Dokubo and Sylva to appease Delta ahead of 2019 elections

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After many delays, OCP plants Moroccan flag in Niger Delta

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Buhari chooses another former army officer to manage lucrative 2021 Niger Delta amnesty budget

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