WARRI ? FIGHTING between soldiers and militants in the Niger Delta continued yesterday following the attack on the Shell Petroleum Development Company operated Benisede flowstation which left 13 military personnel dead and an equal number of civilian casualties. Information from … read more
Hostages are being held in Amutu, Delta State (info from Bayelsa Joint Task Force Shell representative and Ecodrill Country Manager) American Citizen Services Warden in Warri said ambulances were at the airport accepting injured from continued fighting in the creeks … read more
HEAVILY armed gunmen yesterday attacked the Benisede flow-station, a Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) operated crude oil facility in the Niger Delta area burning it down, giving rife to fears that recent attacks were part of a wider plan to … read more
Nigerian troops battled militia fighters in swamps around a Royal Dutch Shell oil platform that militants attacked at dawn Sunday, the third assault on Shell oil facilities in less than a week in the troubled region. Shell confirmed the attack … read more
A GROUP, which calls itself the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), has claimed responsibility for the January 11 attack on oil installations in the Niger Delta and the abduction of four expatriate oil workers. In a … read more
THE Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice-Admiral Ganiyu Adekeye, yesterday at the Delta Naval Base, Warri, said the Navy had information on the whereabouts of the kidnapped oil workers as well as data on the hoodlums who carried out the … read more
On January 11, 2006 commencing 1000Hrs, forces of the movement for the emancipation of the Niger delt (M.E.N.D) attacked and destroyed oil installations in Bayelsa satate of the niger delta. THese installations include three pipelines blown up with explosives and … read more
Security forces in Nigeria have located a boat carrying gunmen and the four foreign oil workers they abducted and will soon make an attempt to rescue the captives, a navy official said Friday. Gunmen kidnapped the four foreigners — a … read more
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has adjourned till February 5, 2007, further hearing in the treason charge brought by the Federal Government against the leader of the Niger Delta People Volunteer Force (NDPVF),Asari Dokubo. Justice Peter Olayiwola adjourned … read more
Militants suspected to be Ijaw, have continued their attacks on oil facilities in the Niger Delta by vandalising a flow station and a gas flow line in Warri South-West and Burutu Local Government Areas of Delta State. The Shell Petroleum … read more