By Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief ABUJA-The Presidential Amnesty Office, yesterday, handed over to security agencies in Abuja 35 leaders of Niger Delta ex-agitators enrolled under Phase Two of the Presidential Amnesty Programme. A statement from the office said the arrest “became inevitable given the incessant harassment and intimidation of officials of the office, including […]
By Samuel Oyadongha Operatives of the Joint Task Force JTF, in the Niger Delta, codenamed Operation Pulo Shield, yesterday, invaded the Igbomotoru mangrove swamp in the Southern Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa State, destroying about thirty illegal refinery camps. The soldiers backed by three gunboats and two water crafts, according to community sources, stormed […]
A group protesting its exclusion from the amnesty granted the ex-Niger Delta militants by the Federal Government has kicked against the proposed inclusion of less than 4,000 of its members in the proposed Third Phase Amnesty programme. Our correspondent learnt on Monday that members of the group met at Ohoro Secondary School, Delta State to […]
The Presidential Amnesty Office, yesterday, raised the alarm about an alleged plot to cause mayhem in the Niger Delta by some “seemingly disgruntled youths in the region”. The alarm came amid a brewing crisis among Niger Delta ex-agitators over alleged exclusion of ex-militants of Urhobo and Itsekiri ethnic extraction in Delta State from the Presidential […]
MOVEMENT for the Survival of the Ogoni People, MOSOP, says kinsmen and women of Ken Saro-Wiwa, in the Rivers State axis of Southern Nigeria, are currently living in great fear and frustration. This allegation is contained in a Save Our Souls letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki Moon, and […]
The Chairman, Ijaw Youth Council in the Western Region, Preye Okaba, speaks with CHUX OHAI about issues affecting national security and the Niger Delta How do you react to the recent purported talks between the Federal Government and Boko Haram? I don’t see anything bad in it. Considering the tension and insecurity generated by persistent […]
SECURITY EXPERTS from the United Kingdom and United States of America have joined forces with the Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta, code-named ‘Operation Pulo Shield’, to tackle oil platform vandals and illegal bunkering gangs operating in the region. It was gathered that the latest move followed concerns by the government and non-government agencies […]
SOME former militants from the Niger Delta stor-med the Federal Secretariat, Abuja, on Wednesday, demanding their inclusion in the amnesty programme, amid other demands. The ex-militants also demanded that they be included in the third phase of the amnesty pro-gramme. Some of them said they were captured in the programme, but were yet to be […]
BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME A faction of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP makes a Unilateral Declaration of Independence from Nigeria. But does it change anything? OGONI, a leading oil-producing area of Rivers State has been quiet and calm after the August 2 declaration of self-government by the faction of the Movement for the […]
BY Emma Amaize WARRI—A militant group, Niger Delta Liberation Force, NDLF, has criticised the attack on journalists in Warri, Delta State, by a group of ex-militants on Tuesday. NDLF, in a statement by its spokesperson, ‘Captain’ Mack Anthony, described the invasion of Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Correspondents’ Chapel, Warri Office, by supposed ex-militants as […]
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