"The renewed activities of the militants in the Niger Delta is seriously affecting our oil production," Minister of Finance Kemi Adeosun admitted on state-owned NTA television. This is the first ...

Militants with assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers patrol the creeks of the Niger Delta area of Nigeria in 2006. Nigeria’s government has resumed paying stipends to former ...

Or perhaps it’s because the Niger Delta militants have no ties to radical Islamic groups like al-Qaeda or ISIS and have shown little or no interest in maiming or murdering the innocent ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. We are thought leaders in energy from the University of Houston. Hoping to quell a violent insurgency aimed at the Nigerian ...

Before the decision of the administration of the late President Umaru Yar’Adua to engage the Niger Delta militants in dialogue to resolve their grievances against the Federal Government and the ...

The Nigerian military confirmed over the weekend that militants had conducted multiple attacks on oil installations in the southern Niger Delta region over the previous few days. The attacks came ...

Niger Delta creek warlords under the auspices of the Reformed Niger Delta Avengers ( RNDA ) on Monday backed the second term ambition of President Muhammadu Buhari . The militants declared that ...

"The incident led to fire outbreak," Paul Etaga, chairman of Ughelli south council area said, when asked about a claim by a militant group called Niger ... January by Delta militants who want ...

The statement by the Niger Delta Avengers comes just over ... said that it had launched a new offensive against militants in the Delta, killing five and arresting 23, to crack down on criminal ...

Armed militants from the creeks of the Niger Delta are spoiling for war over the N4bn surveillance contract awarded to a former creek warlord, Government Ekpemupolo, aka Tompolo. The hooded ...

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