NIGERIA ASSURES IMO OVER ANTI-PIRACY ACTIONS
March 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NIGERIAN government has assured the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) that it is acting seriously against pirates who have been targeting oil tankers and industry supply vessels in and offshore the country's oil-rich delta. Nigeria transport minister Ibrahim Bio assured IMO in London a new Niger Delta ministry had "full powers to address...the problem of militancy and piracy."
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THE NIGERIAN government has assured the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) that it is acting seriously against pirates who have been targeting oil tankers and industry supply vessels in and offshore the country's oil-rich delta. Nigeria transport minister Ibrahim Bio assured IMO in London a new Niger Delta ministry had "full powers to address...the problem of militancy and piracy."
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