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The tribal king of the land of Ogale in Bayelsa, HRH Emere Godwin Bebe Okpabi, has dragged the oil giant, Royal Dutch Shell to a London court after a devastation of Niger Delta community by oil spills. WATCH VIDEO: Over the last five decades, Niger Delta has given multinational oil...

Oil and gas together constitute over 90% of Nigerian foreign-exchange earnings. The Niger Delta is the main seat of oil and gas production in Nigeria. It is a fact that all aspects of oil and gas exploration and exploitation have harmful effects on the local ecosystem. The Niger Delta is where...

The Niger Delta Avengers on Sunday said its strike team resumed attacks on oil facilities in the region because the federal government has refused to honour the ceasefire it entered into with the militant group to allow for a dialogue. A statement issued by the group’s spokesman, Mudoch...

President Muhammadu Buhari will today meet Niger Delta stakeholders with a view to ending the militancy in the region which has led to a sharp decline in Nigeria’s oil revenue. Those expected at the meeting include all the governors, ministers and other political appointees from the Niger Delta...

Former Military Head of State, Yakubu Gowon has apologised to Niger Delta communities for the neglect they have suffered in the hands of the successive Nigerian governments. Gowon made this disclosure at the Premiere of Oloibiri, a movie about a particular community in the Niger Delta region of...

Katsina State's Governor Aminu Masari, has flayed Niger Delta leaders over alleged mismanagement of oil money allocated to the region over the years. “For six years, we had a Niger Delta president. Let us see what difference he made in six years when he was President. When the excess crude...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has send goodwill message to every Nigerian, saying Nigerians must be prepared to protect and develop the country at all times. Mr. Jonathan said that the current challenges Nigerians were facing were transient as the country would definitely overcome them and...

Militant group, Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, has agreed to a conditional ceasefire in the Niger Delta region. The monarchs and elders of the region who made the plea during a stakeholders meeting on Warri, Delta State, said the call for ceasefire was to allow them negotiate with the Federal...

Niger Delta community leader, Sandys Omadeli Uvwoh, in an interview published by Vanguard, has stated that Niger Deltans and their leaders are the biggest reasons for the failures in the area. "We do share in the failure, in quite significant proportion. As far as I am concerned, we failed...

A group that recently split from Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), a militant organization that has claimed responsibility for bombing numerous oil facilities, has revealed sponsors of the Avengers. According to SaharaReporters, Cynthia Whyte, an alias for a male spokesman, the splinter group also...

The Niger Delta Revolutionary Crusaders, NDRC, Saturday, vowed that it would carry out reprisal attacks on Muslims and mosques in the Niger Delta region if Boko Haram kills Christians and burn down churches in the north, as threatened by its new leader, Abu Masab el Barnaw, last Wednesday...

The federal government of Nigeria has uncovered the firm supplying bombs and explosives to militants, The Nation reports. According to the National Security Adviser (NSA) Maj.-Gen. Muhammed Babagana Monguno it has been revealed that the explosives were diverted by Nigerian Development and...

Nigerian military troops were ubiquitous in Boro town, Kaiama in Bayelsa state on Monday to prevent the Adaka Boro Avengers militant group from declaring a republic of Niger Delta, Punch reports. According to Punch, the intimidating presence of the military forced the militant group to cancel...

Prominent Ijaw leaders today held a meeting at the Warri residence of Ijaw national leader, Chief Edwin Clark. PUNCH reports that Ijaw leaders from Bayelsa, Edo, Rivers, Ondo, Delta and Cross River States took part in the emergency meeting. The meeting was convened to discuss the...

Detectives from the Delta State Police Command have arrested a bishop of a new generation church in Warri for allegedly sponsoring the militant group, the Niger Delta Avengers. It was gathered that the bishop, (name withheld), a native of Ogbinbiri community of Egbema (Ijaw) Kingdom in the...

Spokesman of Niger Delta Avengers, self-styled Brig Gen Mudoch Agbinibo, while reacting to the alleged visit of Sports Minister Solomon Dalung to Oporoza, said that the minister did not meet any member of the group. Agbinibo said: “The Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung, narrated...

Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, weekend, said since President Muhammadu Buhari has decided to shun the demand for legitimate dialogue with militants and stakeholders on the Niger Delta question, it would continue to encumber all avenues by him to export crude oil from the region. The group in an...

The Toru-Ebe State Creation Movement, yesterday, said the quick fix to the ongoing bombings was for the Federal Government to create Toru-Ebe State for the Ijaw in the western flank of Niger Delta inhabiting Edo, Delta and Ondo states. In a statement issued by the Toru-Ebe State Creation...

The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) wants President Muhammadu Buhari to visit the region to physically experience the pains of the community in the hands of the “Nigerian government and the multinationals”. The invitation, which was delivered in a statement on Saturday, comes three weeks after the...

A 33-year-old teacher of Government Girls Secondary School, Minna, Abdullahi Shaba, has been remanded in prison custody for allegedly raping a 16-year-old senior secondary 2 student. The Police Public Relation Officer (PRO) of Niger State, ASP Bala Elkana said the matter was in court and that...