Fidelis Soriwei, Olalekan Adetayo and Geoff Iyatse the Niger Delta Avengers has denied entering into a ceasefire agreement with the Federal Government. The group said this on Tuesday in reaction to media reports saying it has signed a 30-day ceasefire pact with the government. Reports quoting sources at the Ministry of Petroleum as saying that […]
Niger Delta agitation won’t stop without true federalism –Briggs — 9th June 2016 By Charles Adegbite NIGER Delta environmental and rights activist, Ann- Kio Briggs said yesterday that agitation and violence in the region may not end unless the Federal Government practise true federalism. Briggs stated this when she spoke on the solution to insecurity in the […]
Governors of the South-South region who met with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the State House today called for a majority of the corruption cases in the region to be dropped by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), SaharaReporters has learned. The meeting was attended by Governors of Edo, Ondo, Delta, Akwa Ibom, Rivers, […]
Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja The Federal Government on Monday night announced that it has set up a committee to negotiate with the militant group, Niger Delta Avengers, that has been involved in the destruction of oil installations in the Niger Delta region. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and Group Managing Director of the Nigerian […]
Sunday Aborisade, Abuja The Presidency on Friday, explained that top political office holders in the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government from the Niger Delta region, have started peaceful dialogue with their kith and kins who are involved in the spate of ongoing bombings of oil facilities in the area. The Senior Special Assistant to the […]
Chukwudi Akasike, Port Harcourt Niger Delta militants on Wednesday gave the Federal Government till Friday, June 3, 2016 to release the corpses of 10 pro-Biafra agitators. The ultimatum is coming four days after some supporters of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra were killed during a clash with security agencies […]
Nigeria has been hit by growing unrest in the country’s oil-producing south by a new militant group calling itself the Niger Delta Avengers. Here is what is known about them: – What’s the story so far? – The Avengers describe themselves as young, well-educated “worthy outlaws” and have since early 2016 been attacking Nigeria’s oil […]
OVIE OKPARE, WARRI Niger Delta Avengers late Thursday night simultaneously bombed several pipelines operated by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation around Batan community in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State. Local residents told THE PUNCH on the telephone that multiple explosions were heard, a situation they said threw people of the area into serious […]
CALL TO BE ‘FANTASTICALLY CONCEPTUAL’A keynote address delivered by Mrs. Ibim Semenitari, Ag Managing Director Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, on the occasion of the 43rd Annual General Meeting of Association of Advertising Agencies of Nigeria (AAAN), at Le Meridien Ibom Hotel & Golf Report, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, on Friday, May 20th, 2016 Honourable Minister […]
To say that Ogoni is the worst place to live on earth may just sound like an over-statement. But It is indeed a fact. Everything seems to work against her. The government had been repressive, the environment is poisoned, the schools are dead, the hospitals can best function as dispensaries, the roads are death traps, […]
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