Niger Delta Youths in conjunction with Civil Liberties Organizations and other Voluntary Youths Bodies are currently protesting in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State.
Protesters are against the victimization of former first lady Dame Patience Jonathan by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission...
Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday assured Barack Obama, the American President, that Nigeria was making steady progress towards resolving the Niger Delta region problem, which had led to economic sabotage on a grand scale.
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi...
The troops of 13 Brigade, 82 Division, Nigerian Army, have arrested a suspected notorious militant kingpin, Mr. Victory Benjamin, famously known as Abuja Daddy or G3.
The breakthrough came one week after the troops of Two Brigade Nigerian Army in the ongoing Crocodile Smile operation in the...
A Twitter user @@Roland_speaks has shared a photo of alleged Niger Delta militants rescuing a drowning soldier.
He captioned the photo ''A soldier being rescued from drowning by same people he was asked to come and kill in the Niger delta region.''
The splinter group cautioned Kanu against “resorting to cheap blackmail and propaganda” in his struggle for the actualisation of Biafra.
The statement reads, “Following the alarming and weighty allegations of threat to the life of Mr. Nnamdi Kanu in Kuje Prison, which was leveled against the...
The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra yesterday marked its 17th anniversary with a renewed commitment to a violence-free actualization of the Biafra Republic.
In a statement issued in Awka, Anambra State, MASSOB leader, Comrade Uchenna Madu, said the Biafra...
Founder of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Ralph Uwazuruike has said that MASSOB would celebrate its 17 years of non-violent agitation for independence of Biafra in all the senatorial districts across the Biafra land, which include South-East and Niger...
Urhobo youths under the aegis of Urhobo Ethnic Nationality of the Host Communities of Nigeria on Monday called on militants of the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Movement to cease hostilities on oil facilities in the region.
The youths, who also condemned the deliberate bombing of oil...
Emir of Kano, Sanusi Muhammad II (Sanusi Lamido Sanusi) has said that Nigeria will do well with having Lagos state that the whole of Niger Delta.
Emir Sanusi noted this on his Instagram page.
He wrote: "The Lagos story is a story of what Nigeria can do with itself – transparency...
Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, Paul Boroh, has revealed the President Muhammadu Buhari government plans for old and new militants in the Niger Delta region.
He said that Federal Government has no plans to enrol fresh set of militants into the Amnesty Programme.
Boroh, who...
Several riverine communities, including Oporoza and Ogulagha in Delta State, and Ezetu, Aggeh and others in Bayelsa State, have been struck by food and transportation crises following the ongoing Operation Crocodile Smile of the military in the region.
Vanguard gathered that transporters...
The Federal Government has explained why the proposed dialogue with the Niger Delta militants is yet to commence.
The government said it is waiting for reports from the National Security Adviser, NSA, Major General Mohammed Monguno (retd.); service chiefs and other top government officials...
Despite the ongoing military “Operation Crocodile Smile” in the Niger Delta region, an Urhobo militant group, Niger Delta Greenland Justice Movement, NDGJM, in the early hours of today, blew up the Ogor-Oteri major delivery line, operated by the Nigeria Petroleum Development Company and...
Nigerian army soldiers conducting training and clearance operations against Niger Delta militants in Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers states, on Sunday arrested 15 suspected oil vandals in different operations and destroyed several illegal oil refineries.
A statement detailing the operations on...
The Movement for Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, today, accepted that former Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark, should head the pan Niger Delta group that will dialogue with the Federal Government.
The group conveyed its readiness to disband its Aaron Team 2...
Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has reacted to reports that he is included in the Niger Delta negotiation team with the federal government.
He said that some Niger Delta militant groups had reached out to him in their efforts at interfacing with the government on the current militancy in...
Nigeria's Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu on Thursday revealed that there's nothing to show for the $40bn released to the Niger Delta in the last 10 years.
Speaking with Niger Delta Coastal Monarchs in Abuja, he said there's no infrastructure reflecting the money...
Traditional rulers and stakeholders from the Niger Delta on Thursday met the Federal Government and read out terms that would build confidence as well as restore peace in the region.
This follows the ceasefire announced by the Niger Delta Avengers and other militant groups in the region on...
President Muhammadu Buhari's friend, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, was one of the dignitaries at the graduation ceremony of 80 former Niger Delta Militants from the Innoson Kiara Academy in Enugu State.
Other dignitaries included: Brigadier General Paul Boroh, Coordinator Niger Delta Presidential...
Protesting elders, leaders, women and youths of Ugborodo, an Itsekiri community in Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, have laid siege to the Escravos Tank Farm, belonging to Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, alleging neglect and discrimination by the multinational oil conglomerate...
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