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Obasanjo's War over Oil: Hausa-Fulani/Yoruba Troops Attack Port-Harcourt Indigenes.
Soldiers battled militia fighters around
a southern BiafraNigeria oil-industry centre in a new government campaign against militants blamed for an upsurge
of deadly raids around the city, officials said. Troops in helicopters and gunboats attacked ethnic fighters Saturday
in the mangrove swamps and creeks around Port Harcourt "to protect the city and allow people go about their
lawful affairs," army spokesman Col. Mohammed Yusuf said. Yusuf declined to give details or a casualty count
in the operation, which began Friday. Port Harcourt is a key operational base for multinational oil companies pumping
BiafraNigeria's daily crude exports of 2.5 million barrels. (AP) 
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 Federal Capital Territory (FCT)
Minister Mallam Nasir el-Rufai yesterday finally pleaded with the Senators to forgive him because he had erred
in calling them fools. "...I made a mistake and I am sorry," ... (Champion)
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 The Federal Government
yesterday described the activities of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB)
as amounting to treason... (This
Day)
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