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General
- Conference Wants Autonomy for Nationalities
PostExpress 10/08/99
[excerpt] The Federal Government has been called upon to give all constituent nationalities in the country, the freedom to determine their own affairs and control their own resources within the federation.....full story
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South-West
- Afenifere backs Niger Delta, Middle Belt pact
The Guardian
Wednesday, December 20, 2000
[excerpt] According to Afenifere, since Nigeria is in a democratic government to which freedom of association and freedom of assembly are integral, the decision of the Middle Belt and Niger Delta leaders to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) geared towards promoting the interest and goals of the two groups, based on the principle of freedom, equity and justice, is a welcome development.....full story
- Afenifere seeks dialogue with Arewa leaders
Guardian
Friday, December 8, 2000
[excerpt] ETHNIC tension which have heated the polity owing to verbal duel and exchange of brickbats between the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and Afenifere, may subside soon, as the Yoruba socio-political movement is opting for dialogue.....full story
- Exiting From the Nigerian State: The Yoruba Experience
PostExpress 09/24/2000
[excerpt] Exit was defined by Osaghae as disengagement or retreat from the state by disaffected segments of the citizenry into alternative and parallel social, cultural, economic and political systems which are constructed in civil society and which compete with those of the state.....full story
- Afenifere Canvasses Support for National Confab
PostExpress 03/30/2000
[excerpt] According to the source, "a delegation of the association has been dispatched to the South-south and the North-central to canvass support for the conference."
Another delegation, it said, would be leaving for the North- west and North-east for the same purpose. It was also gathered that the Afenifere and its Igbo counterpart, Ohanaeze are already taking steps to iron out their differences.....full story
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South-South
- South South Leaders Press for Gains
Tempo (Lagos)
November 13, 2000
[excerpt] The atmosphere at the Government House auditorium in Port Harcourt was charged. Governor Peter Odili of Rivers State and his counterparts from Delta, Akwa Ibom, Cross River and the Deputy Governors of Bayelsa, Edo and Rivers states maintained a stone face......full story
- South-South Demands Payment of N197bn Debt From Federal Government
Post Express (Lagos)
November 7, 2000
[excerpt] The South-south parliamentary caucus has called on the Federal Government to urgently pay to the zone the outstanding N197 billion debt owed to agencies to carry out remediation intervention in the area.....full story
- Ijaws: Before the Resource Control Offensive
This Day (Lagos)
September 15, 2000
[excerpt] Governor D.S.P. Alamieyeseigha of Bayelsa State must be a very happy man now. He wasn't so 1ast Saturday morning when Ijaws from the Niger Delta assembled at the indoor Sports Hall of the Yenagoa sports complex to elect a new leadership for the highest decision making organ of the Ijaw ethnic nationality, the Ijaw National Congress (INC).....full story
- Ikwerres Will Resist All Forms of Injustice Against Them - Okwukwu
Post Express (Lagos)
INTERVIEW July 15, 2000
[excerpt] The objectives we intend to achieve are all contained in the Ikwerre Rescue Chapter. Through a non-violent, democratic and legitimate campaign, and persuasion, and we have identified the oppressors. Having identified them, we will inform them that we are being oppressed.....full story
- MOSOP blasts critics of sovereign national conference
Vanguard
WEDNESDAY, 24th May, 2000
[excerpt] THE Leadership of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) has accused those opposing the convocation of Sovereign National Conference (SNC) of insincerity, saying: "Without SNC, Nigeria will know no peace"....full story
- Ijaws and Sovereign National Conference
Tare Otu
Vanguard
WEDNESDAY, 24th May, 2000
[excerpt] On every side today, ethnicity is breaking up nations. The Soviet Union, India, Yugoslavia, and Ethiopia, are victims, all of which are in crisis. America solved this problem by creating a virgin land for the red Indians.....full story
- We Want Self Determination
Dr. M.T. Akobo
The News (Lagos)
March 21, 2000
[excerpt] As you may know, a Sovereign National Conference always involves a review of the structure of a variegated state towards better governance, greater democracy and the satisfaction of the majority of the people. It is sovereign to the extent that whatever conclusion it reaches is no longer subject to further modification by anybody, whether an existing elected assembly or military cabal where such exists.....full story
- South-South people's conference makes case for national conference
Vanguard
Friday, 17 March 2000
[excerpt] The conference, an amalgam of the people of the South-South also threatened to recall indigenes of the zone living in other parts of the nation should the Federal Government fail to take urgent steps to stop the Sharia law crisis.....full story
- Ijaw Lawyer Carpets Marshall Harry
P.M. News (Lagos)
March 14, 2000
[excerpt] In less than 48 hours after Dr. Marshall Harry, the National Vice Chairman of PDP (South-South Zone) lashed at the Ikemba Nnewi, Chief Odumegwu Ojukwu for calling for the meeting of leaders of the South-South and South East, the PDP boss himself has been lambasted for selfishly assembling PDP stalwarts in Port Harcourt to condemn the calls for a Sovereign National Conference (SNC).....full story
- Self-Determination Is Next Option
Orubebe
The News (Lagos)
December 6, 1999
[excerpt] The soldiers have taken over the whole town, and destroyed it completely. There is no house in Odi that was not destroyed. Up till now, the death toll cannot be ascertained, because the soldiers have denied us the right to retrieve the corpses of those killed for proper burial.....full story
- What The Niger-Delta People Want
Oronto Douglas
Tempo (Lagos)
October 13, 1999
[excerpt] We need to congratulate ourselves, the people of Nigeria who were able to fight despite the tyranny of Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, Sani Abacha and Abdusalami Abubakar. What we have now, however, can only be descried as dictatorial democracy.....full story
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South-East
- 'Confederation is Devils Alternative'
This Day (Lagos)
May 8, 2000
[excerpt] The recent calls by governors in the South-eastern states of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo for confederation have been described as the devils alternative, but not the last option in the quest for a new deal by the people of the zone from the present democratic dispensation.....full story
- The Clamour For Confederation
Tempo (Lagos)
April 19, 2000
[excerpt] Last February, Kaduna State experienced an orgy of violence and destruction occasioned by the alleged attempts of the State Government to impose Sharia on the citizenry. Most of those who fell victims of the arsonists were reported to be people from the South- Eastern part of the country.....full story
- Abuja On Notice
Tempo (Lagos)
March 15, 2000
[excerpt] Shortly after President Olusegun Obasanjo addressed Nigerians in a nationwide radio and television broadcast where he condemned the Eastern governors' call for confederation, an urgent message went out from Abuja to the Ikemba Nnewi, Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. Ojukwu who is seen as the force behind the governors' call was ordered to report at the Presidency in Abuja immediately. By Tuesday morning, Ojukwu the civil war lord was on the first flight out of Enugu to Abuja.....full story
- Imo Assembly Urged to Support Call for SNC
PostExpress Politics 12/29/99
[excerpt] The Imo State House of Assembly has been urged to earnestly press for the restructuring of the country through a sovereign national conference. In a six page memorandum sent to the Assembly, Ogu Na Ofo Igbo, an association of Igbo Youths in the business and professions called on the house to move a motion in support of the restructuring which it observed would assist in redressing the problems of marginalisation.....full story
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North-Central (Middle-Belt)
- Middle Belt Not North
Col. Madaki
P.M. News (Lagos) October 25, 2000
[excerpt] "We have our own region. We are an independent entity known as the Middle Belt. We were never affiliated to the core North, it was done out of suppression. The military just did things in their own way without allowing people to know that there are some other people who are not Northerners."....full story
- Don't Imitate Abacha, Tivs Warn Obasanjo
This Day (Lagos)
May 2, 2000
[excerpt] President Olusegun Obasanjo has been urged to take urgent steps to eliminate from his administration certain features that tend to bring back to Nigerians memories of the bitter days of the infamous regime of the late General Sani Abacha.....full story
- Tivs Unfold Agenda ... Oppose call for SNC, regional armies
PostExpress 08/19/98
[excerpt] THE Tiv people of the middle Belt zone, have lent their voice to the current calls for a restructuring of the nation, and the shift of political power from the north, as a way of preserving the unity and peaceful co-existence of Nigerians.
They, however, opposed the clamour for a Sovereign National Conference (SNC), saying that such a restructuring can best be done under a democratic set-up, by the in-coming National Assembly.....full story
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