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.... ....   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact Towards a better life for the people Search The Archives   Cover Stories National News South West Niger Delta South East North Politics Business Sports World Viewpoints Features   ..... NATIONAL NEWS FG, Dokubo’s parley continues Saturday, October 02, 2004 *As quit notice expires LAGOS: Talks between Federal Government officials and Ijaw warlord Mujahid Dokubo Asari went into a third day yesterday under the shadow of a rebel deadline for foreign oil workers to quit the region, a member of the rebel delegation said on phone. He said that some state officials from the Niger Delta were taking part in the latest round of negotiations, which got underway on Wednesday after Asari threatened to wage all-out war against the government. On Monday, Asari issued a statement on behalf of his Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force (NDPVF) which says it wants more rights and greater autonomy for the oil-rich region’s native Ijaw people   - ordering multinationals and foreigners out of the Delta, hub of Nigeria’s lucrative oil industry.  He said his rebel group would declare all-out war on the government on October 1 if the rebels’ demands were not met. In an interview  on Thursday in Abuja, Asari said his key demand was for a sovereign national conference to be convened to discuss the country’s problems, and warned he would resume hostilities in the Niger  Delta  if Obasanjo failed to meet that demand. He also said he would return to the Delta region Thursday, whether or not the talks had reached a conclusion. The member of his force said the group would “definitely” leave Abuja yesterday. Obasanjo said in a nationwide radio-television speech yesterday to mark Nigeria’s 44th independence anniversary that his government will not tolerate any “undue militancy” in the Delta region. “Government is taking appropriate steps to stem the tide of undue militancy and we are confident that reason and the law will prevail,” he said. “Government will not tolerate in any way or form any act that would mortgage or compromise the interest of the majority.” The region accounts for the bulk of Nigeria’s crude output of 2.3 million barrels per day.   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact © 1998- 2004. Vanguard Media Ltd.

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