Unknown gunmen, suspected to be militants, have reportedly killed four soldiers and a civilian in Bayelsa State. The suspects were said to have laid an ambush...
The headquarters of the Marine Police in Iwopin, in the Ogun Waterside Local Government Area of Ogun State came under attack when daredevil militants attacked the...
A new twist has been added to the suspended militant attacks on Nigeria’s oil facilities, resulting in the reported killing of no fewer than six soldiers...
Eight men who were plotting to launch a series of bomb attacks during the last staged Rio 2016 Olympics in Brazil have been served jail sentences...
At least two soldiers and five policemen are reported dead after a gun battle with militants on Saturday night. The incident reportedly took place at Woodland...
Some militant leaders in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region on Thursday gave new conditions for President Muhammadu Buhari to meet, in order to ensure total peace in...
There was palpable tension on Saturday within the Niger Delta region of Nigeria following a renewed threat by a volatile militant group, the Niger Delta Avengers...
In its bid to ensure a lasting solution to the militancy in the Niger Delta, President Muhammadu Buhari has assured that his administration will persuade Niger...
Nigeria’s economy, no doubt, has been seriously affected by the activities of militants in the Niger Delta area of the country. This has also derailed the...
President Muhammadu Buhari has again called on the people of Niger Delta to stop destruction of oil and gas facilities in the region. This is even...
The Presidency has called on Niger Delta militants to give peace a chance in the region in the face of growing economic hardship in the country....
Worried over recent bombings of oil and gas facilities in the Niger Delta, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, has appealed to...
The Joint Military Task Force in the Niger Delta, code-named Operation Delta Safe, says it has degraded the capacity of the Bakassi Strike Force, BSF, to...
With the loss of about 600 megawatts (from about 3.5Mws) of electricity in Nigeria, following Tuesday’s attack on Chevron’s gas line by a militant group, the...
The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), claims its members had successfully carried out an attack in the early hours of Tuesday, destroying Chevron’s export pipelines to the...
An attack at a Pakistan police training academy in the southwestern city of Quetta by gunmen wearing suicide vests claimed the lives of no less than...
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, has said the Federal Government has not kept its own side of the agreement it reached...
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said that the objective of militants in the Niger Delta area is to colonize the country economically by sabotaging oil and...
A wild drama played out in a remote area in the Turkish capital of Ankara when two militants, believed to be a male and a female...
The Presidency has urged Niger Delta Avengers and other militant groups in the coastal region to leave the creeks and enlist in the amnesty programme for...
Nigerian troops may have made a headway in its current campaign against Niger Delta militants, as a nominal payroll containing the names of 30 suspected members...
The Nigerian military has decared that it was in full support of effortds resolving the crisie in the Niger Delta through dialogue. It however threatened that...
At least $376.5bn was lost as a result of militants’ attacks on gas facilities in Nigeria between June and September 2016. This resulted from a 45 per cent drop in production of the Joint Venture assets and the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NNPC) within the period. The NNPC latest monthly...
A Niger Delta militant group operating in Cross Rivers State, Bakassi Strike Force, has attacked troops deployed at Efut Esighi waterfront in Bakassi Local Government area...
President Muhammadu Buhari has alleged that politicians who stole the nation’s money were the ones who recruited militants in the Niger Delta against his administration. The...
A militant group, Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate, MDGJM, has blown up another major crude oil delivery pipeline belonging to the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC,...
No less than 23 militants were killed during a military operation in the Niger Delta tagged “Operation Crocodile Smile”. That much information was revealed by the...
The proposed dialogue between Niger Delta militants and the Federal Government has suffered another setback, as the Delta State Forum of Ijaw Elders, under the auspices...
The Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, has accused the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of conniving with some South South state governors to register about 8,000...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike and his Delta State counterpart, Ifeanyi Okowa have been accused of importing militants into Edo State with the aim of disrupting...
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, has again vowed that the Nigerian Army would crush all criminal elements in the Niger Delta to...
The Joint Military Task Force in an operation at the oil bearing communities of the Awarra/Assa in Ohaji/ Egbema council area of Imo State have reportedly...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has raised a fresh alarm, drawing attention to activities of militants in the Niger Delta region of the country. It...
A former military governor of Kaduna State, Colonel Abubakar Dangiwa Umar (rtd), has warned President Muhammadu against the use of military force on the Niger Delta...
Niger Delta Greenland Justice Movement (NDGJM), has declared ‘Operation Crocodile Tears,’ as it blew up the Ogor-Oteri major delivery line, operated by the Nigeria Petroleum Development...
By Tony Ogunlowo… Ever since oil was discovered in the Niger Delta more than sixty years ago the lives of the people there have been blighted...
President Muhammadu Buhari has come under fire for threatening to give Niger Delta militants the Boko Haram treatment if they fail to embrace dialogue and give...
President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government has vowed to deal with Niger Delta Militants should they refuse to dialogue with the Federal Government. The President said this...
The resurgence of militancy in the Niger Delta region and the renewed agitation for the state of Biafra by the South-East are mere reactions to marginalization...
The much anticipated dialogue with Niger Delta Militants by the Federal Government, may have started on a wrong footing as Ijaw traditional rulers have said they...
The Nigerian Army Saturday, said its troops have killed five militants in the Niger Delta while others were wounded. According to a statement by the Acting...
The Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), is said to have finally accepted that Chief Edwin Clark should head the group that will dialogue...
Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, on Thursday lashed out at the Nigerian media, saying he would not talk to them any longer due to what he described...
Nigeria will spend close to $2.5 billion to cleanse oil spills and repair damaged oil facilities resulting from activities of militants in the Niger Delta region,...
The Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate, NDGJM, has disowned the dialogue team put together by Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, calling them buccaneers that has held...
The renewed militancy in the Niger Delta may soon be over, as the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, last night, accepted it would cease hostilities in the...
Suspected Niger Delta militants on Friday blew up oil facilities at Owhrode community, Udu Local Government Area of Delta State. The attack took place 20 kilometres...
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has alleged that Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, has contracted Ishekiri activist, Ayiri Emami, to help recruit ex-Niger Delta militants for...
Former President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, has described as mere ruse, reports that he is being investigated by the Federal Government for his alleged link with the...
Militants based in the Niger Delta may soon receive the ‘Arepo Treatment’, as the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, has said it would soon launch a major...
