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The Niger Delta Avengers on Friday continued with oil installations sabotage campaign by blowing up the Nembe 1, 2, 3 and Tebedaba brass trunk-line in Bayelsa/River States.

Mr Onyekachi Ubani, a former Chairman, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ikeja branch on Wednesday said the victory of Uche Ogah as the governor of Abia State was valid and not a hurriedly executed legal ambush for the acquisition of political power.

“Out of the blue, a group calling itself the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA spouts. They kill soldiers and policemen. They kidnap and kill oil company workers. Piracy on the high seas. They asked oil companies to stop operations and pack out of the Niger Delta region.

The Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, on Wednesday announced  the blowing up of  a Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, pipeline at Eleme in Rivers State. With this development, the militant group appears to be shifting its sabotage activities from Delta State to Rivers State. The NDA claimed responsibility for the action on its Facebook page NDavengers: “By 3.00 am, yesterday, strike …

The Arewa Consultative Forum on Tuesday called on the Niger Delta Avengers to in the spirit of Eid el-Fitri stop blowing up oil pipelines and embrace dialogue with the Federal Government.

A Sierra Leonean diplomat who was kidnapped in northern Nigeria has been freed, the police said on Tuesday.

Following the directive by the President General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, the Sultan of Sokoto, to the effect that the Ramadan fast continues today as a result of the non-sighting of the moon, the Federal Government has declared Wednesday 6th and Thursday 7th July, 2016 as Public Holiday.

Suspected members of the Niger Delta Avengers continued with their oil and gas installations vandalism by blowing up some pipelines in Delta State, the military and locals said Tuesday. A military officer said the attacks happened at about 10:00 pm on Monday in the Batan and Makarava areas of Delta State.   “The Monday night attack was an oil well …

The Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt on Monday declared the May 21 national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) legal and that its decisions did not violate any known law or the constitution of the party. Delivering judgment on a suit brought before him by the National Caretaker Committee of the PDP, the Presiding Judge, Justice Mohammed Liman, …

The Senate has stated that it has been vindicated by the Thursday ruling of a Federal High Court in Abuja presided over by Justice Gabriel Kolawole which described the forgery case filed against its presiding officers as an abuse of court process and a decision taken against public interest. In a statement signed by its spokesman on Media and Public …