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Youths protest at Mobil plant

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    Demonstrating youths disrupted the activities of US oil company Mobil in southeastern Nigeria on Thursday, a Lagos-based daily, ‘The Guardian’, reported. The group, numbering some 5,000, blocked the company’s main operational base at Ibeno in Akwa Ibom State in protest against the company’s refusal to appoint a local to a key position despite an earlier agreement to that effect. The company and community leaders had signed a memorandum of understanding in the state’s House of Assembly providing for the appointment of a local to the position of director of legal services, the daily reported.

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