{"id":1514,"date":"2007-05-10T09:39:16","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T16:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2007-05-11T10:08:01","modified_gmt":"2007-05-11T17:08:01","slug":"violence-continues-in-nigeria-on-eve-of-presidential-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2007\/05\/10\/violence-continues-in-nigeria-on-eve-of-presidential-inauguration\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Militants Step Up Activity Leading Up to Presidential Inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2\/2007_05_10_nigeria.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&#038;p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2\/2007_05_10_uprising.MP3&#038;m=1\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=40% src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/us.yimg.com\/p\/afp\/20070507\/capt.sge.ayt17.070507145859.photo00.photo.default-357x512.jpg?x=240&#038;y=345&#038;sig=Imv7uy5nQBvfWjhHaP69iA--\" alt=\"Yar Adua\" \/><em>GUEST: Reverend Nnmio Bassey, Director of Friends of the Earth, Nigeria, Roxanne Lawson, International Policy Campaigner with Friends of the Earth USA<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Property damage to oil infrastructure in Nigeria has escalated since last month\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s controversial elections in which Umaru Yar\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Adua was elected to the presidency.  The elections have received massive criticism for reports of ballot fraud, voter intimidation, bribery, and other forms of corruption.  Analysts believe the corruption to be the work of ruling party, People\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Democratic Party (PDP) and current president, Olusegun Obasanjo.  Yar\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Adua is also seen by many as Obasanjo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153puppet.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  Since then, various militant groups have increased activity, bombing oil refineries and pipelines and kidnapping oil factory workers from foreign companies such as Chevron and Agip.  Recently 4 US oil workers were kidnapped on the heels of the release of 11 other Korean and Phillipino workers. To date no one kidnapped has been harmed. One militant group, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), has stated its demand for redistribution of oil-wealth to the Nigerian people, most of whom live in poverty.  They have committed to continuing attacks in anticipation of Yar\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Adua\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s inauguration on May 29.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foe.org\">www.foe.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Reverend Nnmio Bassey, Director of Friends of the Earth, Nigeria, Roxanne Lawson, International Policy Campaigner with Friends of the Earth USA Property damage to oil infrastructure in Nigeria has escalated since last month\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s controversial elections in which Umaru Yar\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Adua was elected to the presidency. The elections have received massive criticism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}