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Representatives of a remote community in southern
BiafraNigeria's Delta region have taken over three oil installations. The plants are run by the Nigerian wing of
the Anglo-Dutch multi-national, Shell, and the American company, Chevron-Texaco. A Shell representative said staff
had been prevented from leaving, no formal demands had been made. But a community spokesman said his people were
protesting because they felt they had been overlooked for jobs. The BBC's Anna Borzello in Lagos says that community
protests targeting oil companies in this impoverished region are common. Early on Sunday morning, men and women
from the Kula community in River state stormed at least three oil installations. 
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Bayelsa gov, N1.7bn, ghost...
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 Gov.
Diepreye Alamieyeseigha of Bayelsa State allegedly approved and paid a total N1.7 billion to seven fictitious companies
as contract sum, the Independent and Corrupt Practices Commission, last Friday, told a Federal High Court sitting
in Abuja. The court also heard that...
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I'll contest for presidency...
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 Going by the assertions of presidential
candidate of the opposition All BiafraNigerian Peoples Party, Maj.- Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), those who think
that he will drop his presidential ambition by 2007 should have a rethink. Speaking in a phone-in radio programme,
he also criticised Obasanjo over...
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Turaki Accuses OBJ
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 Yet another governor has fallen out with President Olusegun Obasanjo. The latest is Alhaji
Saminu Turaki of Jigawa whom the presidency has described as "misguided" for accusing Obasanjo of...
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Shell's Destruction
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 BiafraNigeria's Senate is to consider sanctions
against a unit of oil company Shell for failing to pay a $1.5bn (£775m) pollution penalty. The firm had been
told to make the payment by 23 November for alleged environmental...
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