Niger Delta Avengers Set To Resume Attacks, Declare "Operations Walls of Jericho and Hurricane Joshua”

The High Command of the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), has announced that the militant group will shock Nigerians with more dastardly acts this year. The threat was contained in a statement signed by the group's spokesperson, Brigadier-General Mudoch Agbinigbo. The NDA said its range of activities designed to reclaim the Niger Delta in 2017 will be carried out under Operations Walls Of Jericho and Hurricane Joshua.

Nigerian Government Secretly Negotiating With Niger Delta Militants

Notwithstanding the seeming reluctance of the federal government  to officially set up a negotiating committee to hold talks with Niger Delta militants, the government has continued discreet talks with the belligerent groups in the region, THISDAY learnt yesterday.

Why Militants Will Continue Attacking Oil Pipelines In The Niger Delta – Experts

Few weeks ago, Nigeria’s junior oil Minister - Mr. Emmanuel Kachikwu said output was almost back to normal after a year of devastating attacks against the major African oil producer.

Niger Delta Avengers Bomb Shell, Agip Oando Export Trunk Lines

The Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, today, November 15, 2016, claims its ‘’Elite Strike Team 03’ bombed crude oil export trunk lines operated by oil majors Shell, Agip and Oando with a supply capacity of 300,000 barrels per day. This was made known in a press release by self-styled Brig. General Murdoch Agbinibo, the Spokesman of the militant group. Full text of the press release reads:

Again, Niger Delta Militants Blast PPMC Crude Oil Pipeline

Suspected Niger Delta Militants on Tuesday reportedly bombed a state-run oil pipeline near the southern port city of Warri, the second attack within a week, a community leader and army officer said.

Breaking! Niger Delta Avengers Bomb Chevron Escravos Crude Oil Export Pipeline

Unconfirmed reports from the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, suggests that the militant group has bombed Chevron Escravos crude oil export pipeline in Nigeria's Niger Delta.

Ceasefire: Niger Delta Avengers Issues Warning To Nigerian Government, Insist Soyinka Is Their Negotiator

The leadership of the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), a militant group behind incessant attacks on oil installations in Nigeria’s oil producing hub, has warned the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to desist from negotiating with traditional rulers and other personalities in the area, describing those would-be negotiators as “vultures.” The NDA insisted that the government should instead enter into dialogue with a team co-led by Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka and Anthony Ani. 

In a statement issued today and signed by one Colonel Rightman Hudson Opukurowari, the NDA remarked that, in response to calls from Nigerians, the group had been observing a ceasefire since the third week of July 2016, adding that “spontaneous attacks on oil installations” were “politically motivated.”

The statement disclosed that, on August 16, 2016, “Central and Eastern Avengers was formed for easier administrative convenience.” Colonel Opukurowari added that the NDA on August 27, 2016 unveiled the names of members of its dialogue group and demanded an “immediate exhaustive commencement of forensic audit of all Federal Government Agencies and parastatals set up with the mission and vision of developing the region from 1999 to date.” According to the militant leader, the NDA’s insistence on an audit disenchanted “some nefarious, mischief makers of the region who had earlier approached [us] to influence us with money to coin the struggle to their favor on certain demands with Federal Government.”

He stated that an unnamed “sponsor of groups of vultures”was seeking to promote a group of negotiators from the Niger Delta who “neither represent us (NDA of the Central and Eastern Division), nor the people of the region but self-aggrandizement.”

The NDA’s statement wondered why “traditional rulers, leaders at all levels in the Niger Delta are all always excited and fight at all cost to dialogue on militant issues? Despite our several oppositions and rejections we keep seeing repeated resurgence of the vultures as dialogue experts in the likes of Chief E.K. Clarke, King Alfred Diete Spiff, Tony Uranta and the Ajumogobias, etc. We (NDA) know their sponsor—Niger Delta Looter King.”

The NDA urged the Buhari administration to enter into dialogue only with the militants’ team composed of “Mr. Ballantyne Agiri [and] headed by Dr. Anthony A. Ani and Professor Wole Soyinka.” 

Continued the statement: “We shall remain at our homes (creeks) and watch the orchestrated melodrama tagged Federal Government dialogue with leaders of the Niger Delta (organized by King Alfred Diete Spiff) to be chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on 26th and 27th September, 2016.” It dismissed Mr. Diete Spiff as a “self-imposed misfit King of Twon Brass,” adding that his rule had caused communal clashes between Twon Brass and its neighboring communities in Brass local government area of Bayelsa State.

The NDA’s statement warned the Federal Government to call off the meeting scheduled for September 26 and 27 with the Diete Spiff team, adding that the government should enter into dialogue with the “right persons” or risk the end of peace and tranquility in the oil-producing zone. The NDA’s statement vowed that the Federal Government would face consequences if it did not heed the militants’ warning. 

The NDA concluded its statement by warning “the Niger Delta Vultures” that their “pay back days are at hand.”

Culled from: Saharareporters

Not Yet Uhuru; The Ticking Time Bomb In Nigeria’s Niger Delta

Apparently alluding to blistering attacks on crude oil installations and facilities by militant groups in the Niger Delta, Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo recently said, ‘’Nigeria is losing one million barrels of crude oil per say due to vandalism’’. Nigeria’s public space is awash with a raging debate as to whether or not the Nigerian government should ‘negotiate’ with or as some put it, ‘appease’ the Niger Delta militants. While Western governments led by the United States and the United Kingdom recommend ‘dialogue’ as the best way out of the quagmire, President Buhari hitherto seemed unenthusiastic about a dialogue.

BREAKING NEWS! Niger Delta Avengers Announces Ceasefire, Agrees To Negotiate With The Nigerian Government

The Niger Delta Avengers today, Sunday, 21st August, 2016, announced a unilateral ceasefire and agreed to negotiate with the Nigerian Government. In a Press release, the militant group laid down terms and conditions of its negotiation and appointed Chief Edwin Clark as its representative.

Niger Delta Avengers Set To Declare Independent Niger Delta Republic October 1st, 2016

The Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, insists on going ahead with its plans to declare an independent Niger Delta Republic on October 1st, 2016. In It's latest press release signed by its Spokesperson, Brig. General Mudoch Agbinibo, the NDA says, "The October 1^st, declaration of independence is still sacrosanct. If the Nigeria government fails to retrace it’s step by restructuring this country". 

Nigerian Government Probes Former President Goodluck Jonathan Over Niger Delta Bombings

Ex_President Goodluck Jonathan

The federal government of Nigeria has launched an investigation on the possible involvement of former President Goodluck Jonathan with the spate of bombings that have crippled the country’s oil industry and affected itspower generation capabilities.

Niger Delta Avengers Refute Claims of Splinter Faction

Just yesterday, SaharaReporters and some press platforms reported of a crack within the ranks of the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA. The reports claimed that a splinter faction purportedly known as the Reformed Niger Delta Avengers (RNDA) has emerged from the NDA and promises to expose those behind attacks on Oil installations. The purported split was allegedly announced in a statement signed by one Cynthia White.

Niger Delta Avengers Unveil New Twitter Handle, Insist Attacks Will Persist

The Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, on Thursday announced its new twitter handle and promised that it will sustain attacks on oil facilities in the Niger Delta.

Again, Niger Delta Avengers Blast Shell Petroleum Crude Trunkline in Delta State

Militant group, the Niger Delta Avengers, has once again attacked a crude oil trunkline belonging to the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria in Batan, Warri South West Council Area of Delta State.

Niger Delta Avengers Accuse President Buhari Of Hiring Saudi Mercenaries With $258million To Fight Militants

The Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, recently asserted that the militant group doesn't care if the Federal Government hires mercenaries from Saudi Arabia or anywhere to fight them. 

BREAKING! Niger Delta Avengers Blow Up Multiple Oil Facilities in Delta State, Nigeria

Tranquility is yet to return to the restive Niger Delta region of Nigeria as the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, has claimed responsibility for fresh attacks on major oil facilities in Delta state, south-south, Nigeria.

Dissecting The Recurring Agitation For Balkanization of Nigeria (1)

Introduction: It is globally established that the primary responsibility of a sovereign state encompasses the protection, security or safety of lives and properties and creation of the right atmosphere where economic, social activities thrive. Decline or complete absence of such prerequisites by acts of commission or omission implies the sovereign state is inching towards a failed state. For clarity, a ‘’failed or failing state’’, refers to ‘’a political entity or nation in which the government is inept at living up to the basic tasks of a sovereign State, is on the verge of losing or has already lost political authority, control’’. Some of the unmistakable characteristics of a failing/failed sovereign state include very weak institutions, culture of impunity, gross human right abuses, absence of rule of law, unprecedented and entrenched corruption, incessant strife and instability, geometrical depreciation in security, safety of lives and properties, liberty and the standard of living.

Niger Avengers Avengers Clarifies Purported Dialogue, Threatens To Sink Vessels Conveying Crude Oil From Nigeria

The Niger Delta Avengers today Monday, June 13, 2016 released a statement inter alia clarifying it's position on purported dialogue with the Nigerian government and also threatening to sink vessels conveying crude oil from Nigeria.

Here's the unedited statement by the group.

Fresh Militant Group - Bakassi Strike Force Urge Niger Delta Avengers To Stop Bombings

Not to be outdone, a new crop of militant group which goes by the moniker Bakassi Strike Force has emerged from the Akwa Ibom - Cross River axis of the Niger Delta. The latest group condemned the bombing of oil and gas Installations by the Niger Delta Avengers.

Nigerian Navy Arrest Kingpins of Niger Delta Militants Behind Bombing of NNPC, Chevron’s Facilities

Arrested Kingpin

The Nigerian Navy have reportedly recorded a major feat in the ongoing military onslaught against Niger Delta militants and pipeline vandals, with the arrest of a militant kingpin who is best described as the coordinator of recent attacks on NNPC and Chevron oil facilities in the region.