21 December 2007
Posted to the web 21 December 2007
Tony Eluemunor
Nairobi
The likelihood of renewed and more pronounced insecurity in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta and the possibility of President Umaru Yar'Dua's election being annulled don't augur well for the African giant, writes TONY ELUEMUNOR in Abuja
Nigeria's Chief of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral Ganiyu Adekeye, told the navy in November it would receive new weapons in the first quarter of 2008.
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Policemen keeping the peace stops and searches youths on the Buguma Road in Ogbakiri, about 50 kilometres from the oil city of Port Harcourt in the Niger Delta: Armed groups have been demanding autonomy and greater control over oil resources in the Niger Delta. Photo/FILE
The admiral further said that the navy was preparing to handle the insurgency in the country's Niger Delta region because the region had become more complex for ordinary security agencies to manage.
Apparently, the conflict was spreading beyond the Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers states to other states such as Calabar.
There are indications that Nigeria will be the great African news maker next year but for the wrong reasons.
One, it is feared that within the next three months, a petition challenging the election of President Umaru Yar'Adua might succeed. Should this happen, Nigeria would be thrown into a situation that its constitution is not equipped to handle. Full Story
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