Friday 29 May 2009

Niger-Delta: Freedom Or Oil War?

By Hakeem Babalola
Nigerian Affairs
When citizens could no more stomach their government's insensitivity, dishonesty, brutality, massive looting and inefficiency; and then took up arms in order to sing emancipation, what should we call them? Criminals? Crusaders? Or both? And should the govt - legal or illegal - folds it arms in discharging its primary duty of protecting lives and properties? The Niger-Delta "war" is an intricate and confusing political situation read more