Many of these groups have been backed by political figures or ethnic figures in the Niger Delta, to vie for influence ahead of elections in 2007.
There were groups of men working on it, like scavengers, small figures, amidst the immensity of the rubble.
The government needs to act now to make sure enough affordable homes are being built, campaign groups have said, after figures showed the number of housing starts in England fell 11% in 2012.
Fearful that their candidates will be assassinated, most of the main groups are not disclosing most of the names on their slates, beyond a few well-known figures.
And the overall figures conceal some large differences among specific groups of workers and would-be workers.
According to figures collected by a trio of research groups, the game was the most "most-social event in the history of television, " racking up more than 52.5 million mentions of it around the web in a single day -- three times that of 2012's Super Bowl and Grammy Awards.
Key figures from the groups which include Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth have said the road is unnecessary and should not have been approved.
Preliminary figures, released Tuesday by two groups that keep track of police fatalities, show 155 law enforcement officers died in the line of duty in 1998.
But passenger groups and some of the companies running services at the stations have questioned the figures.
To back these claims up, the authors constructed price indices for 12 income groups, using official figures and detailed private information on the spending habits of different households.
The debt-relief measure, championed by the White House, charity groups and religious and cultural figures from Pope John Paul II to singer Bono of the rock band U2, allows the United States to pay its share under the global Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative to forgive the debts of some 30 Third World countries.
John Thune of South Dakota, a member of the Senate Republican leadership, said the figures show that gun control groups have emphasized the wrong approach to controlling firearms violence.
These include senior figures from Palestinian militant groups and individuals held responsible for notorious suicide bombings in which dozens of Israelis died.
That helps to explain why the first round of the French presidential election featured so many figures from the far-left, representing groups including the Revolutionary Communist League and the Workers' Struggle party.
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There is some better news though as the figures suggest falls in admissions, for both girls and boys, across a variety of age groups, since 2006-08.
But it's likely they will show a further narrowing of the gap, while school attendance figures suggest the census will find a Catholic majority within younger age groups.
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