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War in Port Harcourt: Army, Airforce and Navy Attack Freedom Fighters' Base
The Joint Military Task Force put in place
by the Defence Headquarters to combat the activities of cultists and local militia yesterday attacked the operational
base of the leader of the Niger Delta Voluteer Force (NDVF), Alhaji Asari Dokubo. THISDAY gathered that the attack
on Dokubo's base at Ngotokukiri, a creek hideout near Harry's town in Degema local government where the rebel leader
has been co-ordinating terrorist activities, was launched by the airforce with holicopters, the Army by land and
Naval personnel with flying boats. Information pieced together in the area indicated that Dokubo narrowly escaped
with some of his aides although another source claimed he was wounded during the operation. It was not clear if
some of his supporters were arrested during the operation. Military sources, however said, a large cache of arms
with dynamites and some personal effects left behind by Dokubo, former leader of the Ijaw Youth Congress (IYC),
were recovered from the operational base. Spokesman of both the 2nd Amphibious Brigade and the Joint Task Force,
Capt. Onyeama Kalu, feigned ignorance of the operations when contacted on telephone. He told THISDAY that he was
out of Port Harcourt and was yet to be briefed of the development. Dokubo and his group had in the past one month
launched series of attacks in Port Harcourt water fronts killing several people. Their recent on-slaught included
those launched at the Njamanze water front where about five persons were killed and another at... (This Day) 
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 The Ikemba Nnewi, Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu,
speaking, yesterday, for the second time this week on his invitation by the State Security Service (SSS) declared
that he was not afraid of arrest, and... (Vanguard)
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 Second Republic Governor
of Kaduna State Balarabe Musa has re-painted a sad picture of the state of the nation, describing the administration
of President Olusegun Obasanjo as a fraud and lacking in legitimacy. He also (Daily Independent)
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