With the daily bombing of oil facilities in the Niger Delta by the militants in the area, especially by a group known as the Niger Delta Avengers, the Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government is losing grip on governance. The party said in a…
Members of the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, on Wednesday, June 1, 2016, struck again in Nigeria’s oil rich Niger Delta region. The group blew up an oil well belonging to top oil and gas multi-national, Chevron, in the early hours of the day. NDA made this disclosure via its official Twitter handle on Wednesday and…
Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Niger Delta as well as Coordinator of the Niger Delta Presidential Amnesty Programme, Brigadier General P.T. Boroh (rtd), from all indications, has relocated to the creeks of the region. This might not be unconnected to the recent activities of the Niger Delta Avengers. According to a source privy…
According to Tribune, Nigerian troops invaded Government Tompolo, a former militant leader’s community in Gbaramatu, Delta State on Saturday in search of the new militant group, the Niger Delta Avengers. Gbaramatu Kingdom is located in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State, The invasion of Tompolo’s terrain was said to have occurred in…
Pipelines belonging to Agip and Shell, two oil and gas multinationals, have been blown up by Niger Delta Avengers. The attacks reportedly took place in the early hours of Saturday, May 28, 2016, in Nembe, Bayelsa State. The Niger Delta Avengers group confirmed this via its Twitter handle. The group said, “At About 2:15am on…
The onslaught of the newly formed militant group, the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, on oil facilities in Delta State continued on Thursday night. The group disclosed via its official Twitter handle on Friday morning that it blew up another oil facility in Warri, Delta State. According to the NDA, the affected facility is the NNPC…
A tank farm belonging to leading oil and gas company, Chevron, has been destroyed by the new militant group, the Niger Delta Avenger. The group disclosed on Thursday, May 26, 2016, via it Twitter handle, @NDAvengers, that it blew up the facility because the company failed to listen to its (NDA) instructions. According to the…
The Niger Delta Presidential Amnesty Program was set up in 2010 by late president Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua GCFR. The sole purpose of the programme was to help rehabilitate and reintegrate militants in the Niger Delta who had accepted presidential amnesty given to them. It was on June 25, 2009 that President Yar’Adua proclaimed a…
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, has kicked against renewed attacks by the newly formed group, the Niger Delta Avengers. MEND, in a statement issued on Sunday by its spokesperson, Jomo Gbomo, disclosed that it had carried out “rigorous and robust analysis, debate and review of political events in Nigeria within the…
Reports say the Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company, KRPC, has stopped producing following renewed activities of Niger Delta militants. It was learnt that the Kaduna refinery stopped operations last Tuesday because of the renewed attacks by the Niger Delta Avengers. Also, a stop in the supply of crude oil to the refinery is believed to…