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Headlines, Niger Delta
Thursday, August 11th, 2016
A group that recently split from Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), a militant organization that has claimed responsibility for bombing numerous oil facilities, has claimed that former President Goodluck Jonathan was the grand patron of the NDA. In a statement issued today by Cynthia Whyte, an alias for a male spokesman, the splinter group also named […]
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Armed Forces, Army, Headlines, Niger Delta
Tuesday, August 9th, 2016
soldiers attack boko Soldiers comb Niger Delta creeks for militants — 10th August 2016 • New group vows to attack Warri, Port Harcourt refineries Femi Folaranmi, Yenagoa and Paul Osuyi, Asaba Soldiers attached to Operation Delta Safe (OPDS) have seized the creeks of Bayelsa State in search of the militants that killed three soldiers and […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, Niger Delta, State News
Monday, August 8th, 2016
YENAGOA- SUSPECTED sea bandits on Monday attacked a military checkpoint at Tombi waterside in Nembe, a coastal community in Bayelsa East Senatorial district, Bayelsa State, allegedly killing three soldiers. Vanguard gathered that the pirates, who caught the soldiers unawares struck at about 10.00 am. They made away with a gunboat belonging to the military and […]
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Latest Politics, Niger Delta
Monday, August 8th, 2016
The National chairmanship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Raymond Aleogho Dokpesi, has denied sponsoring activities of the Niger Delta Avengers, saying that it is nothing but a blatant concoction of falsehood obviously laced with the political intention of throwing a spanner in the works of our nation wide campaign/consultation with PDP delegates […]
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Headlines, Niger Delta
Wednesday, July 6th, 2016
By Emma Amaize, Egufe Yafugborhi, Perez Brisibe & Immanuel Janah WARRI—Twitter suspended the account of Niger Delta Avengers, yesterday, following the group’s announcement on the micro-blogging site that it had carried out five attacks on key oil installations in the last few days. Although Twitter does not comment on individual accounts for privacy and security […]
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Headlines, Niger Delta
Wednesday, July 6th, 2016
By Levinus Nwabughiogu ABUJA-Against the background of incessant bombings of oil and gas installations in the Niger Delta by the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, which apparently threaten the peace and unity of the country, President Mohammadu Buhari has stated that Nigeria’s unity is not negotiable. He also warned looters of the public treasures to return […]
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Headlines, Niger Delta
Tuesday, June 28th, 2016
The New Face of the Niger Delta Amnesty Programme The Niger Delta Presidential Amnesty Program was set up in 2010 by former 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 […]
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Latest Politics, Niger Delta
Monday, June 27th, 2016
Ovie Okpare, Warri The umbrella body of Ijaw youths, Ijaw Youth Council, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to back his appeals with action in making the Niger Delta militants halt hostilities by personally kick-starting the dialogue process with stakeholders in the region. A statement signed by the spokesman for the group, Eric Omare, on […]
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Air Force, Armed Forces, Army, Latest Politics, National Politics, Navy, Niger Delta, Top Stories
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016
A consolidated group of militants, Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force (JNDLF), yesterday, claimed that some senior military officers were scheming to overthrow the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari through a coup d’état. The militant group, which was behind threats of missile launch that created panic in the Niger Delta region, said persons behind the coup […]
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Headlines, House, Legislature, Niger Delta
Tuesday, June 21st, 2016
Ibim Semenitari John Ameh, Abuja Members of the House of Representatives Committee on Niger Delta Development Commission on Tuesday expressed disgust over the sitting of most of the agency’s projects in the constituency of the Chairman of the committee, Mr. Nicholas Mutu. The commmision’s Acting Managing Director, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari, had presented a 2016 budget […]
