In 2011, it lost its then biggest customer, supermarket chain Asda, when that work was won by Delta Group.
But Kennedy Orubebe, a former student leader and now chief spokesman for the militant delta group, says that the activists' real target is the government not the oil companies.
The rivalry peaked a couple of years ago, when Broward reportedly poached a Carnival Cruise call center and a Delta Air Lines reservations group.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), the main rebel group fighting for political autonomy and local resource control in the oil-producing Niger Delta region, has called off its unilateral ceasefire, just weeks after announcing the move.
ECONOMIST: A big rebel group in the Niger Delta calls off its ceasefire
The government efforts saw the Niger Delta Liberation Front, a militant group that split from MEND led by former Boyloaf deputy John Togo, cooperate with the government and refrain from attacks.
When Jonathan became vice president in 2007, MEND said its operations helped him gain national prominence, which propelled the neglected Niger Delta region and its largest ethnic group, the Ijaw, into the spotlight.
Mr. MAHTANI: That's right, the Ijaw are the dominant ethnic group in the Niger delta, and many Ijaw leaders and chiefs believe that, their people have been cheated out of Nigeria's oil by the greedy central government, by the greedy oil multinationals, as they term them.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) is an insurgent group that demands compensation from petroleum companies for the pollution and deaths they have caused.
Prior to working at Delta, he was a vice president with Boston Consulting Group.
The major carriers have as a group raised concerns about the move with three - Delta, American, and US Airways coming out in opposition.
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The low-fare blast is squarely aimed at siphoning off traffic from United and other legacy airlines like AMR , Delta Air Lines , Continental Airlines , Northwest Airlines and US Airways Group as the industry starts its fall season slowdown.
Some of the stocks he initiated a buy rating on include Alaska Air Group, American Airlines parent AMR, Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines parent UAL, because those stocks are highly leveraged to an economic recovery, will benefit from balance-sheet deleveraging, focused on growing margins rather than gaining market share and attractively valued.
And Nigeria is one of the biggest suppliers of oil to the United States, which explains why the attacks by a group calling itself the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, has been blamed for rising oil prices around the world.
The Air Transport Association (ATA), the powerful industry group that represents the country's largest commercial airlines, such as Delta, US Airways and Continental Airlines, has given the FAA's proposal only a tepid reception.
The smaller carriers that do have a significant percentage of hub-and-spoke routes, such as Mesa Air Group and SkyWest, do so as contract carriers for the Big Six: AMR, Delta Air Lines , UAL, Continental Airlines, Northwest Airlines and U.S. Airways.
So, Ofeibea, the group that's holding the oil workers is called the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, and it's fairly new in Nigeria, but well organized, I gather.
When the group announced the truce in late June, it claimed it was respecting an appeal by elders in the Delta to give peace and dialogue another chance.
ECONOMIST: A big rebel group in the Niger Delta calls off its ceasefire
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