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Pipeline Attacks, Power Outages Cripple Refineries

Posted by admin Latest Politics, Niger Delta Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

Nigeria’s four refineries with combined capacity to refine 445,000 barrels per day of crude oil have been completely shut. The implication is that Nigeria will now be importing all its petroleum products. The refineries have for years operated far below their capacity utilisation, due to attacks on their crude supply pipelines and the problem of […]

Ex-militants attack Amnesty Office in Abuja

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger Delta Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

A group of young men numbering about 60 that claimed to be ex-militants from Bayelsa State, yesterday, attacked the Abuja headquarters of the Presidential Amnesty Office. According to the group, it was protesting their non-inclusion in the benefits of the amnesty programme, especially the N65,000 stipend and feeding allowance paid to their colleagues on a […]

JTF destroy nine militant camps in Bayelsa.

Posted by admin Bayelsa, Niger Delta, Top Stories Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

The Joint Task Force, Wednesday, said it had taken over ten ex militant camps in the creek of Bayelsa State just as the whereabouts of the kidnapped site engineer at Okpoama in the Brass council area of the state remained unknown. Nine of the camps, according to the JTF were razed down while the one […]

Alaibe enjoys confidence of ex-militants –Appah

Posted by admin Niger Delta Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

In reactions to calls from some quarters that the Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Affairs, Mr. Timi Alaibe, who is handling the post-amnesty programme of the federal government, be removed, the authorities of the Obubra camp have stated that the former militants have confidence in the ability of the president’s aide to […]

Suspected pipeline vandals arrested in Bayelsa

Posted by admin Bayelsa, Niger Delta Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

ELEVEN suspected pipeline vandals, including a native doctor, were, on Monday, caught on the creeks of Bayelsa State, with over 172,500 illegally refined petroleum products worth thousands of naira. The suspects were arrested at two different locations; Igbomaturu and Nembe creeks in Southern Ijaw and Nembe local government areas of the state, by the operatives […]

JTF Arrests 11 Vandals in Bayelsa

Posted by admin Bayelsa, Headlines, Niger Delta, State News Monday, December 20th, 2010

The Joint (Military) Task Force (JTF) on the Niger Delta yesterday arrested 11 suspected pipeline vandals including a native doctor along the creeks of the Delta with over 172,500 illegally refined petroleum products worth several millions of naira. The suspects were arrested in two wooden boats popularly called “Pekpekpe” along the Igbomaturu creek in Southern […]

Delta Bombed Again

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger Delta Sunday, December 19th, 2010

The Niger Delta Liberation Force (NDLF) has advanced reasons why it carried out the bombing of three oil facilities in Delta state. Led by John Togo, the group explained that the bombings were carried out to protest the refusal of the Federal Government to convene a post-amnesty conference of aggrieved militants and afford the NDLF […]