Just in from AIT. Details to follow.

See the youtube link.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ0qKdJUJ0U

It was said to be at the amnesty gathering in Warri with some governors including the Edo State governor seated in the Hall at the time of the incident. MEND is being implicated but the details are still shady but tune in to AIT as they might repeat it again.

Details of the event to follow.

Source: AIT

You mean to say dem don bomb oshiomole?
lol

2 explosion took place around 11:30am. The people in the hall evacuated immediately and the meeting was suspended immediately. The 1st one went off when Gen. Owoye Azazzi was speaking and the other one took place just afterwards. Imo, Delta and Edo governors all ran for their lives.

You can see the news on AIT now.

kidonig:

2 explosion took place around 11:30am. The people in the hall evacuated immediately and the meeting was suspended immediately. The 1st one went off when Gen. Owoye Azazzi was speaking and the other one took place just afterwards. Imo, Delta and Edo governors all ran for their lives.

You can see the news on AIT now.

Pictures please

why den no kill them?
please bomb dambasu and maina, thanks for your anticipated cooperation

damn. i thought for a minute its a.s.s h.o.l.e rock. or national assembly. well gradually time will come. one day go be one day

The first explosion was said to have happened just after the Governor's convoy passed. A thick smoke engulfed the whole place.

My question is that if there was a security alert, why wasn't it taken seriously?

The Bomb squad chose to escourt the Governors rather than securing the area. The AIT presenter who is still interviewing people in site even picked up some of the remains of one of the shattered cars and no one stopped him.


My question is, why will they hold the meeting with the elders of the Niger Delta without involving the youths?

they were warned, but ignored it.
Nigeria is turning to something else

~Borat~:

Pictures please

Ha ha are you trying to suggest that all those men of Timber and Calipers, laboring under the dead weight of their wobbly beer-guts the size of 9 month pregnancies, might experience difficulty running for their lives ?

I can tell you from first-hand observations that almost any human being can break Olympic sprint and hurdle records, just as soon as the penalty for running slowly becomes death or a serious beating.  Fear is by far the ULTIMATE sports enhancing drug, and its beneficial effects on athletic ability are instantaneous.

kidonig:

The Bomb squad chose to escourt the Governors rather than securing the area. The AIT presenter who is still interviewing people in site even picked up some of the remains of one of the shattered cars and no one stopped him.


My question is, why will they hold the meeting with the elders of the Niger Delta without involving the youths?

The so called bomb squad would rather escort their daily bread than secure any location  - Abeg this bomb squad which equipment them get sef

This guys are too busy looting that they don't even care about their own security!
It a big shame.

I just read the bomb alert issued by MEND. One thing that strung me is the idea given by MEND that we have had enough of talks and conferences. I agree totally. What we want to see is action. We are tired of talk talk every day!

MEND has just added another dimension.

We might not know the end of this.

Just for a Warning. lol

deor03:

MEND has just added another dimension.

We might not know the end of this.

yes and those bastards have introduced another problem to nigeria

expect to see bombs at pdp , anpp ,ad etal conventions going forward . viva nigeria

rot in hell you terrorist bastards - is it not bad enough that you brought kidnapping to nigeria

Does any1 knw where i can produce rubber handbands of quality. Eg d intercontinental type

oyb:

yes and those bastards have introduced another problem to nigeria

expect to see bombs at pdp , anpp ,ad etal conventions going forward . viva nigeria

rot in hell you terrorist bastards - is it not bad enough that you brought kidnapping to nigeria

Sharrap dia. . . .this is brilliant news. . . Uduaghan must be shaking in his boots. . . . fear of remote control bombs is the beginning of wisdom  . . . . I hope MEND will not give prior warning next time and blow them to smithereens. . . imagine holding a fake amnesty charade to dialogue with traitors and agendaless people who are only seeking to fatten their pockets at the expense of their people. . .

stop telling lies. how do you people know MEND did it? Nobody knows wait till the police implicate them.

It may be other politician

How many of the govs survived?These our so called govs should be the target of mend & other kidnappers.

becomricch:

stop telling lies. how do you people know MEND did it? Nobody knows wait till the police implicate them.

It may be other politician

@ becomepoor

The announced it and gave a warning before it went off you can read it on the other thread here. https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-413520.0.html

Ibime:


Sharrap dia. . . .this is brilliant news. . . Uduaghan must be shaking in his boots. . . . fear of remote control bombs is the beginning of wisdom  . . . . I hope MEND will not give prior warning next time and blow them to smithereens. . . imagine holding a fake amnesty charade to dialogue with traitors and agendaless people who are only seeking to fatten their pockets at the expense of their people. . .

spoken like a true diasporan

i hope you will still be grinning when domestic terrorism - 'mr biggs - we have planted a bomb in your resturant. pay 20million by 3pm or we will blow it up' starts.

you were upmending when they started kidnapping expats - we can see the impasse that has brought us to

going by some accounts, it may be mend personnel who supplied those fulanis with weaponry.
so whats the difference between mend and FARC?

or are you waiting for them to fully devolve before you see them for what they are?

this communique they sent, was the general public aware of it? or you have no problem with innocent ignorant women and
children becoming collateral damage

maybe if you got kidnapped during a visit to nigeria you would understand that your heroes are little better than those fulani marauders

the food crisis didnt reach MEND?

how so, and are they working hand in hand with the striking farmers?

same way boko haram started beheading people as soon as MEND started peace talks.

same body, different arms?

oyb:

i hope you will still be grinning when domestic terrorism - 'mr biggs - we have planted a bomb in your resturant. pay 20million by 3pm or we will blow it up' starts.

you were upmending when they started kidnapping expats - we can see the impasse that has brought us to

going by some accounts, it may be mend personnel who supplied those fulanis with weaponry.
so whats the difference between mend and FARC?

or are you waiting for them to fully devolve before you see them for what they are?

this communique they sent, was the general public aware of it? or you have no problem with innocent ignorant women and
children becoming collateral damage

maybe if you got kidnapped during a visit to nigeria you would understand that your heroes are little better than those fulani marauders

STFU!

How asinine of you to blame MEND for copycat attacks.

If Nigerian criminals are so unimaginative that they have to wait for MEND to do something before copying it, then Nigerian criminals do not deserve to be called criminals!

When IRA were carrying out similar remote-control attacks in UK, did anyone start copying their style?

MEND will do what MEND gotta do. . . . if (due to high unemployment and breakdown of society and security), MENDs actions are copied, then that is a failure of the Nigerian State, not a failure of MEND.

oyb:

spoken like a true diasporan

Stop talking rubbish about diaspora. This illogical sense of reasoning would demand that only diasporans should have fought for June 12, as any protest in Naija would bring instability at the home front. This is a cowards way of reasoning. I support the use of force to beat sense into Pharoh, whether Im inside or outside Naija. I was living in Naija during the Ogoni crisis, and the war was fought right outside my house in Borokiri at great cost to human lives which I witnessed with my very own eyes, yet I still supported the Ogoni struggle. The people of Ogoni engaged in a peaceful protest and were massacred in their hundreds in the 1990's. If peaceful protest leads to massacre anyway, then we might as well have violent protest!

Anarchy in the land.
When a body has sick head, it can function,
But a body without head is something else!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_re_af/af_nigeria_oil_unrest


By JON GAMBRELL, Associated Press Writer Jon Gambrell, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 16 mins ago

LAGOS, Nigeria – Twin car bombs exploded outside a government building where amnesty talks were underway Monday in Nigeria's restive and oil-rich region, wounding two people and causing panic, a government spokesman said.

Monday's bombing is the most daring attack claimed by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta since the group abandoned an unconditional cease-fire agreement with the government. It also may signal the end of amnesty negotiations that have fallen apart during the long illness of Nigerian president Umaru Yar'Adua, who brokered the deals before his health worsened.

On Monday, MEND, which is the most prominent militant group in the Niger Delta, promised more attacks.

In a statement e-mailed to reporters minutes before the bombing, MEND said the bombs were part of a new wave of attacks that would sweep across the Niger Delta.

"The deceit of endless dialogue and conferences will no longer be tolerated," the group's statement read. "The lands of the people of the Niger Delta was stolen by the oil companies and northern Nigeria with the stroke of a pen."

Delta state spokesman Linus Chima told The Associated Press just before the bombing that "there is nothing to worry about at all." A live broadcast of the event carried by African Independent Television, a Nigerian satellite channel, showed officials did not evacuate the government building after receiving the warning.

On the live broadcast, an explosion could be heard in the background, halting a speaker in mid-sentence. A man's voice then urged those inside to remain calm.

Later television footage showed flames and smoke rising from a nearby roadway. Witnesses said the blasts blew out windows in the meeting room.

Chima said it appeared that the two bombs were placed inside cars near where a Nigerian newspaper, Vanguard, was helping hold a discussion with government officials about an amnesty deal offered to militants in the region. The spokesman said two people were wounded and that he had no other information. Yelling could be heard in the background during the telephone call.

"I think it was a deliberate attempt to sabotage the peace talks," Chima said.

MEND has used car bombs before. In April 2006, MEND claimed responsibility for two car bombs at an army barracks and an oil refinery in which two people were killed. It also detonated a car bomb outside a state governor's office in December 2006.

Analysts have questioned MEND's capabilities in the weeks after the group announced it had called off its cease-fire with the government. State governments and oil companies later denied the group carried out attacks it had claimed responsibility for in statements to reporters.

MEND seemed to address those questions in its statement to reporters.

"In the coming days, we will carry out a number of attacks against installations and oil companies across the Niger Delta and will spread out to companies such as (French oil company) Total which have been spared in the past," the group said in an e-mailed statement. "We hope the actions which will follow will persuade , (officials) that we exist outside of cyberspace."

Militant groups in the Niger Delta have attacked pipelines, kidnapped petroleum company employees and fought government troops since January 2006. They demand that the federal government send more oil-industry funds to Nigeria's southern region, which remains poor despite five decades of oil production. They also criticize the oil giants for polluting their rivers with spilled oil and flared excess gas produced when drilling.

The region became peaceful after negotiations began for the government-sponsored amnesty program, which planned to offer cash payoffs for militants to abandon the fighting. Some militants also heralded Goodluck Jonathan becoming acting president as a positive sign, as he is the first Niger Delta politician to take over the country's highest office. However, many militants have grown restless in recent weeks as they say the government has stalled the peace process.

seriously, the juju priests in charge of the shrines where these people are taking their oaths, need to be locked up and exiled to the part of india considered a no man's land.


ie that side where civilization isnt allowed entry. Let these anarchists go back to the stone age.

My main worry is that this will evolve from "peaceful" bombing where no life is lost as there was fore-warning, to dangerous bombing as the Middle East and Pakistan is known for.

If government continues to toy with them (which I can bet you will definitely be the case) the above may happen and even spread to the heart of government.

I agree with the person who talked about criminalizing the whole thing as was the case with kidnapping. Thieves did not know that they could use kidnapping to net a lot of money until it started in 9ja Delta. I hope it does not become the case this time around.

I am really scared that we are as ugly in 9ja as our enemies make us to be. If all the events that have been unfolding in 9ja lately does not spell out terrorism, please tell me what else does?

Failure of government is like a man that has a stroke. When the head is seriously incapacitated, the whole body is just a ticking time bomb.

Ibime:

STFU!  

How asinine of you to blame MEND for copycat attacks.

If Nigerian criminals are so unimaginative that they have to wait for MEND to do something before copying it, then Nigerian criminals do not deserve to be called criminals!  

When IRA were carrying out similar remote-control attacks in UK, did anyone start copying their style?



MEND will do what MEND gotta do. . . . if (due to high unemployment and breakdown of society and security), MENDs actions are copied, then that is a failure of the Nigerian State, not a failure of MEND.

thank you for confirming what we have always known  - that in the criminal class, mend are first, second and third  

just as you like to claim credit for producing nigeria's first university graduate, you should also take credit for being the midwife of the kidnapping industry, and now of the bombing industry.

Ibime:


Stop talking rubbish about diaspora. This illogical sense of reasoning would demand that only diasporans should have fought for June 12, as any protest in Naija would bring instability at the home front. This is a cowards way of reasoning. I support the use of force to beat sense into Pharoh, whether Im inside or outside Naija. I was living in Naija during the Ogoni crisis, and the war was fought right outside my house in Borokiri at great cost to human lives which I witnessed with my very own eyes, yet I still supported the Ogoni struggle. The people of Ogoni engaged in a peaceful protest and were massacred in their hundreds in the 1990's. If peaceful protest leads to massacre anyway, then we might as well have violent protest!

what support? did you protest  with them? or is it the same way you support mend, from the anonymity and safety of the internet?

talk is cheap. keep championing violent protest from your expensive apartment in london  

when start physically planting bombs we can take you seriously. you are in the same class as those faceless sponsors of the fulani herdsmen sending and celebrating other to do your dirty work  

i notice you had nothing to say about collateral damage - what of the innocents who just happen to be passing by?

perhaps if some of those dear to you get caught in sharpnel you will think differently.

MEND'S BOMBING:- The most important thing is that we are going some way. Its better than standing still. Unfortunately, We may never know where we are heading to.

MEND has always warned people about this. They have been warning over and over for months now.
They will continue fighting for what is right and like true heroes, they hold human life very dear; that was why they gave a warning.
The corrupt system has itself to blame.

MEND will continue acting, while cowards pray and push their wives forward to fight for them.