The Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) on Sunday urged all Niger Delta compatriots to remain calm and patriotic. The forum also condemned the quit notice issued to the Hausa and Yoruba in the Niger Delta by militants, goading the groups to ignore it. The leaders of the coalition of Niger Delta Agitators (NDA), on Thursday had […]
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The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has pulled its representatives out of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), a coalition of elders and leaders of the region. Jomo Gbomo, spokesman of MEND, who announced the withdrawal of his organisation in a statement, accused the leaders of the forum of being insincere. […]
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Niger Delta militants have issued an October 1 ultimatum for northerners to leave their region, in response to the quit notice given to the Igbo by some Arewa youth groups. The militants also said the federal government should hand over all oil blocs controlled by northerners to the people of Niger Delta. In a joint statement released […]
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Fatai Owoseni, commissioner of police in Lagos state, says the command is working with sister security agencies to arrest the suspected militants that killed four policemen, an army captain and a civilian in the Ikorodu area of the state. Owoseni made the promise in a statement on Sunday while responding to the killings. He said the […]
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Ibe Kachikwu, minister of state for petroleum, says every year, Nigeria loses at least $80 billion to vandalism of oil facilities in the Niger Delta region. Militants are responsible for attacks on oil assets. Kachikwu made this known at the resumed dialogue with Niger Delta stakeholders in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state capital. Acting President Yemi Osinbajo […]
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The Niger Delta Avengers, on Friday signified its intention to resume hostilities, as the group declared “Operations Walls of Jericho and Hurricane Joshua”. In a statement by the spokesman for the group, Brigadier General Mudoch Agbinibo, published on its website, the militant group urged its fighters to be in “high readiness in your webs of […]
Continue ReadingThe Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Sunday vowed to continue to find sustainable solution to the challenge posed by insurgency in the Niger Delta. The NNPC Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Mr Ndu Ughamadu, said this in a statement issued in Abuja. “The Corporation has created security management platforms that would enable […]
Continue ReadingThe Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, retired Brig.-Gen. Paul Boroh, in a statement on Wednesday, said the federal government is determined to build manpower, demonstrating this by sending ten ex-militants for helicopter training. Boroh said the training was part of the Federal Government’s programme on Sustainable Reintegration Agenda and building the manpower […]
Continue ReadingIn an effort to find lasting solution to the persistent crisis in the Niger Delta region, President Muhammadu Buhari hosted stakeholders from the Niger Delta region at the presidential villa in Abuja on Tuesday. Recall that Clark is one of the leaders chosen by some militant groups to kick start dialogue process with the federal […]
Continue ReadingThe Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said from January 2016 till date, government lost 7 billion dollars (N2.1 trillion) to the activities of militancy groups and oil pipeline vandals in the Niger Delta region. The Group Managing Director of NNPC, Dr Maikanti Baru, said this on Friday in Abuja at the 2016 Fiscal Liquidity Assessment […]
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