A militant group in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria called the Adaka Boro Avengers, ABA, has explained why it did not go ahead with its earlier threat to declare the region an independent country from Nigeria on Monday, August 1, 2016. The group disclosed on Sunday that it stopped the declaration due to pleas…
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, has secured the release of leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, and former militant leaders, Henry Okah, in prison in South Africa and Charles Okah, incarcerated in Nigeria. MEND, which has engaged the Federal Government in a dialogue through the oil companies…
The Defence Headquarters in Abuja has scrapped the Joint Task Force operation in Niger Delta tagged Operation Pulo Shield and has replaced it with a joint military operation called Operation Delta Safe. This information was contained in a statement issued by DHQ Director of Defence Information, Brig.-Gen. Rabe Abubakar. According to the Defence spokesman, the…
The Nigerian government might have to deal with more groups in the Niger Delta following the floating of a new one called the Ultimate Warriors of Niger Delta. This new cabal has threatened to continue to attack oil and gas facilities across the Niger Delta region unless the Nigerian government agreed to award 60 per…
An oil well belonging to Chevron in Delta State has been destroyed by the Niger Delta Avengers group. The new militant group disclosed that it blew up the oil facility in the wee hours of Wednesday, June 8, 2016. The latest attack is coming after the Nigerian government ordered troops out of the Niger Delta…
The military onslaught launched by the Federal Government on Niger Delta Avengers in the South South region of the country has been suspended. The suspension was announced on Monday by Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, in Abuja. Addressing newsmen, the Minister said the government was taking this action to give room for…
The Federal Government says it has agreed to re-engage persons from communities in the Niger Delta region to protect the oil pipelines. This, it said, is to find a lasting solution to the renewed militancy in the region. Also, the government promised to restructure the amnesty programme so as to address the critical issue of…
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 reaching us indicate that some suspected militants blew up gas pipeline belonging to the Nigerian Agip Oil Company, NAOC, in Bayelsa State. It was learnt that the facility was bombed at Ogbembiri in Southern Ijaw local government area of the state. It would be more than a dozen times that the oil and gas…
The Defence Headquarters, DHQ, has confirmed the arrest of suspected members of the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, who have allegedly carried out renewed attacks in the region lately, blowing up oil facilities. According to the DHQ on Sunday, the suspects are being investigated by security operatives to siphon information from them. Director of Defence Information,…