Ijaw Human Rights Monitor has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to liaise with former President Goodluck Jonathan to bring lasting solution to militancy in Niger Delta...
The activities of Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), may soon come to an end, if the threat to reveal those behind NDA by splinter group, Reformed Niger...
A Niger Delta militant group, Forest Soldiers, aka Isaac Boro Last Born, had said it is going to do damages in the Niger Delta that the...
President of the South-South Chiefs and Council of Elders (SSCE), Dr Abdulwahab Udosen, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to withdraw soldiers from the oil region if...
Niger Delta militant group, Adaka Boro Avengers (ABA) has said that pleas from elders of the region made it decline from declaring its proposed Niger Delta...
The Niger Delta Revolutionary Crusaders (NDRC), has alleged that there is a plan by Muhammadu Buhari to Islamise the people of the region. The militant group,...
Despite reported breakthrough in preliminary negotiations between the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND and the Federal Government through oil companies and security agencies,...
There are strong indications that the Okah brothers, Henry and Charles and the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, may be released...
The Nigerian Army has released the three associates of ex-Niger Delta militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, popularly called Tompolo. The associates, Simone Bebenimibo, Bomboy Oluba and driver...
A war-zone-like situation is expected in South-South, as Nigerian Army is set to move in troops, heavy weapons and machinery to the region. This is as...
A group, Concerned Niger Delta Elders, CNDE, has warned the Federal Government against making the mistake of going into dialogue with the Movement for the Emancipation...
The face-off between militants, the police and soldiers at the Ewedogbon end of Totowu in the Igando, old Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State continued...
The Governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson, on Wednesday, warned against the use of military option in solving the Niger Delta Crisis, saying it was not...
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), has described as insensitive, Tukur Buratai’s threat of using force against militants. MEND in reacting to...
The Nigerian Army has called on Avengers and other militant groups in Niger Delta to embrace peace or it will use force on them. The Chief...
The Federal Government, on Monday, revealed that its revenue projection in the 2016 budget fell by a whopping N1.064 trillion in the first half of the...
Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Monday, backed Federal Government’s decision to negotiate with Niger Delta militants. According to Saraki, dialogue remains the only solution to the vandalization...
The move by government to engage Niger Delta militants in dialogue is still causing friction among the militant groups in the region. The tension has been...
The claim that Federal Government is in talks with militants in the Niger Delta has been confirmed as truth. This is as Movement for the Emancipation...
Luck has run out for a leader of one of the Niger Delta groups, Jones Abari, aka Gen. Akotebe Darikoro, as he has been arrested by...
There seems to be no end in sight over the dindong affair in the proposed dialogue with Niger Delta militants, as militant groups in the region...
The last may not have been heard of the crisis rocking the economy, as Nigeria’ Forcados crude oil terminal, a major export oil facility, expected to...
The Benenibowei of Gbaramatu Kingdom Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, Chief Godspower Gbenekama, weekend, challenged the Minister of Youth and Sports, Mr Solomon Dalung,...
In what appears as a change of tone, wanted ex Niger Delta militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, popularly called Tompolo, has written an open letter to President...
The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), has described as ridiculous the Federal Government claim of dialogue with Niger Delta militants. In a statement by its spokesperson, Mr. Eric...
Chinua Achebe,,that literary giant, first attempted to explain the trouble with Nigeria. After looking very critically at the contending forces, the challenges and the very real...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday said his administration is now negotiating with Niger Delta militants. Though, he said that the oil companies and law-enforcement agencies are...
President Muhammadu Buhari, has dropped a former Commissioner of Information in Rivers State under the administration of former Governor Rotimi Amaechi, Mrs Ibim Semenitari as the...
Days after his acclaimed meeting with the militant group, Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), Sports and Youth Development Minister, Mr. Solomon Dalung, appears to have run into...
Suspected militants in the oil rich Niger Delta, again attacked two oil installations belonging to an oil exploration close to Batan community in Delta state. According...
By Ifeanyi Izeze… Now that President Muhammadu Buhari’s focus on the Niger Delta question has been “sharpened,” the need to help him see clearer the genuine...
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), says to achieve peace, government should suspend charges against Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo and release Henry...
A Niger Delta militant group has threatened to cripple oil production in Niger Delta. It said it will do so since President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government...
In what may be ambitious territorial expansions of its sphere of operation, suspected Niger Delta militants, on Tuesday, attacked a gas pipeline belonging to the NNPC....
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) will never dialogue with the Office of the National Security Adviser (NSA). It has also given Federal...
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu and the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Office, Brigadier General Paul Boroh, have been fingered as...
The stage may have been set for a showdown in the creeks of the Niger Delta, as the new Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Dr....
The activities of militant groups in Nigeria’s Niger Delta area are beginning to have rippling effects on the electricity supply, and by extension, the economy of...
By Okey Ndibe…I recently surveyed President Muhammadu Buhari’s top appointments recently and was left wondering when last he took a long, hard look at Nigeria’s map....
Despite initially denying the veracity of claims by Niger Delta Militants that top officers in the military approached them over a coup plot against President Muhammadu...
After some moment of inactivity, militant group, the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, has resumed attacks on oil and gas intallations in the Niger Delta. The NDA...
President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed that attacks on oil and gas installations in the Niger Delta by militants cannot divert the attention of his administration. The...
President Muhammadu Buhari says he is still gathering intelligence and information on the situation in the Niger Delta, in order to deal with the issues once...
Yoruba elders have sounded a note of warning to suspected Niger Delta militants attacking communities in the Southwest to stop, saying enough is enough. The elders,...
Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, has said the renewed attacks on oil and gas facilities in the Niger Delta has impacted negatively on the fortunes of...
Former Niger Delta militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, widely known as Tompolo, Tuesday, told President Muhammadu Buhari that no condition is permanent. Tompolo said this in an...
Niger Delta militants on Monday, replied Dr Junaid Mohammed’s call that Federal Government should treat militants in the region as terrorist groups, saying that such call...
Tragedy was averted on Monday in Ogun State, as the the convoy of the Deputy Governor, Chief Yetunde Onanuga, was attacked by suspected militants in the...
The planned massive redeployment of police officers from the northern part of the country to the Niger Delta, has been faulted by a group, Foundation for...
At least 13 people were feared dead on Friday in two separate attacks by suspected militants who attacked Elepete community in Igbo-Olomu, Agric area of Ikorodu,...