Dokubo-Asari: Arrest me and Nigeria will be history

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Niger Delta frontline activist and leader of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, has dared the House of Representatives and leaders in northern Nigeria to arrest him if they can, adding that if they do, Nigeria will become history.

Dokubo-Asari, who addressed a press conference in Abuja, stressed that he stands by his words that “there will be no peace if Jonathan is not re-elected in 2015.”

The House of Representatives had, after a motion moved by Honourable Ali Madaki, called on the Inspector General of Police,  Mohammed Abubakar, to arrest Dokubo-Asari for saying that there would be no peace in Nigeria if President Jonathan was not returned for a second term in 2015.

The position of the House was supported by the Niger State governor, Alhaji Babangida Aliyu, who also called for his arrest.

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Nigeria’s missing policemen found dead

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Security agents on Tuesday found 11 bodies of policemen declared missing at the weekend in Nigeria's southern Bayelsa state, police and army spokespersons said.

One officer remains unaccounted for.

State police spokesperson Alex Akhigbe told reporters that the bodies were taken to a morgue in the state capital Yenagoa.

Witnesses said some of the bodies recovered along the creeks and waterways of the oil-rich state were burnt beyond recognition, mutilated and stripped of their uniforms and rifles.

The Friday attack by speedboat came two days after the main militant group in the Niger Delta region, MEND, allegedly threatened to resume attacks over the conviction of presumed leader Henry Okah in South Africa.

Henry Okah bags 24 years jail term

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A SOUTH African court on Tuesday jailed Nigerian national, Henry Okah for 24 years after he was convicted of 13 terrorism charges over twin bombings in Abuja in 2010.

“Effectively, the accused Okah is therefore sentenced to 24 years imprisonment,” said Judge Neels Claassen.

He was found guilty of 13 terrorism-related charges over twin car bombings during Nigeria's independence day celebrations in 2010. At least 12 people were killed and 36 others injured.

Okah led a group which said it was fighting to help Niger Delta residents gain a greater share of the oil wealth.