PORT HARCOURT – THREE former militant commanders have expressed their resolve to surrender their weapons and embrace the Federal Government’s amnesty programme. In a statement made available to Vanguard, the former militant warlords, said they were convinced by the determination of the Federal Government to tackle challenges that informed militancy in the region. According to […]
Fresh facts have emerged on why the Joint Military Task Force (JTF) is after the militant leader, General John Togo. Intelligence sources said the on-going military operation by the JTF was provoked by John Togo, who gave the impression that he was willing to surrender but was actually erecting new camps. Also Togo was said […]
The crisis of confidence rocking the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) might be far from over as a group of Niger Delta youths calling for the removal of key officers of the commission pointed the finger at federal lawmakers from the South-south as being the brain behind the incessant bickering among the commission’s directors. Specifically, […]
WARRI – MORE troops were deployed in the riverine community of Ayakoromor, Burutu local government of Delta State, Thrusday, by the Joint Task Force, JTF, on the Niger-Delta, following Wednesday’s unfinished gun battle with a militant group in the area. The deployment of more soldiers fuelled fears in the community and environs that soldiers might […]
The Joint Military Task Force (JTF) has warned that it would crush any attempt to destroyed oil installations in the Niger Delta region. The Media Officer of the JTF, Lt. Col. Timothy Antigha, in a statement reacting to the threat of a group, Coalition of Niger Delta Freedom Fighters to cripple oil installations in Delta […]
The trial of Nigerian militant leader in South Africa, Mr Henry Okah, may have run into stormy waters as he has reportedly refused to take his meals for about three weeks. Okah is facing terrorism-related charges, following the October 1, 2010 bomb explosion in Abuja, Nigeria, that claimed about a dozen lives. He is linked […]
A former leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND, and chairman of Gbekebor Federated Community in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, Ebitonmo Alapala, yesterday, lashed out at some former militants, said to have threatened to cripple oil installations in the state should the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, fail […]
The Ijaw Monitoring Group, IMG, has berated Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State for his alleged comment on the killing of several National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, members serving in the Northern part of the country. It will be recalled that Governor Yuguda was quoted last week as saying that the killers of the NYSC […]
Leader of the Niger Delta Volunteer Force, Alhaji Mujadhadi Asari Dokubo, has said that presidential candidate of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari, should be arrested and prosecuted over the riots that claimed lives and properties in the North. Speaking with Saturday Sun, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Dokubo said that the violence […]
The Presidential Amnesty Office has expressed concern over the identity crisis, facing former combatants in the Niger Delta. The Special Assistant to the President on Niger Delta and Chief Executive Officer of the Amnesty Office, Kingsley Kuku, who expressed the worry in Lagos yesterday during a media breakfast, said having undergone non-violent transformational training and […]
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