A chieftain of All Progressive Congress, APC, at Agbarho in Ughelli North Local Government area of Delta State, Theophilus Eridi Ugboduma, has cautioned that the threat by Niger Delta Avengers to resume hostilities and attack on oil facilities will further impoverished the people of the oil rich region. Speaking in a statement issued at Agbarho…
Nigerian government says it has already commenced discussions with militants in the Niger Delta region of the country. President Muhammadu Buhari, speaking at a farewell audience with Michael Zinner, the outgoing Ambassador of Germany to Nigeria at the State House, Abuja, the talks are through oil companies and law enforcement agencies. The President pointed out…
A suspected supplier of logistics to the Niger Delta Avengers’ militant group has been apprehended, the Nigerian Navy has claimed. The suspect, according to a statement signed the Navy’s Director of Information, Commodore Christian Ezekobe, was apprehended on July 11, 2016, at about 11am. In the statement made available to newsmen in Abuja, it was…
elta Members of the deadly militant group, the Niger Delta Avengers, have blown up another oil facility belonging to Shell. It was learnt that the militant group attacked a crude oil trunkline belonging to the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria in Batan, Warri South West Council Area of Delta State. The ugly incident reportedly…
Members of the Niger Delta Avengers have been urged to sheath their sword and allow Federal government time to fashion out solutions to their grievances. This was the opinion of a former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Prince Chibudom Nwuche, while addressing newsmen in Port Harcourt, Rivers State recently. He noted that blowing…
An account operated by the Niger Delta Avengers on popular social media platform, Twitter, has been suspended. As at Monday, July 4, 2016, the account was no longer active on the micro-blogging platform. The militant group, had before now, used its account on Twitter to post its successful attacks on oil facilities in the Niger…
Barely two weeks after the militants of the Niger Delta Avengers group blew up an oil facility belonging to Agip in Bayelsa State, another property of the company has been destroyed again. In the early hours of Friday, June 10, 2016, the militants bombed a trunk line belonging to Agip in Bayelsa State. The latest…
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 Nigerian military says it has deployed additional aircrafts to the South South region on the country to fight Niger Delta militants, who have carried out renewed attacks on oil installations in the area. It was disclosed on Monday that the Nigerian Air Force got the planes in support of the military operations code named…
The recently repaired facility belonging to Shell has yet again been destroyed by militants in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The installation was attacked in the early hours of Friday by the militant group called the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, which has carried out similar attacks in the region lately. According to the group,…