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Port Harcourt — Barely 72 hours after they crippled Adamakri crude flow line belonging to Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has again carried out a major attack, destroying oil pipelines in Isaka and Abonema, both in Rivers State.
Lagos — The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta has claimed responsibility for yesterday's attack on pipelines belonging to Shell and Cheveron in Isaka and Abonema (close to Idama flow station) of Rivers State.
Leadership (Abuja)Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, (MEND) has warned oil companies working along the coastal region of Nigeria to be ready for war, just as it said the military was not in a position to protect them.
MEND said the oil companies were in for a raw deal, stressing that it had decided to step up its attack on oil installations ahead of schedule. "And there will be many more to follow," it assured.
This Day (Lagos)Port Harcourt - The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has claimed that its fighters on Thursday destroyed a major pipeline belonging to Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) at Adamakiri in Rivers State.
Leadership (Abuja)
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, (MEND) has warned oil companies working along the coastal region of Nigeria to be ready for war, just as it said the military was not in a position to protect them.
Port Harcourt — The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has claimed that its fighters on Thursday destroyed a major pipeline belonging to Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) at Adamakiri in Rivers State.
Vanguard (Lagos)OGULAGHA and Odimodi communities in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta, which were given a 48 hour ultimatum, expiring today (Wednesday) by the Joint Task Force on the Niger-Delta, Monday, to mutually produce the youths that bombed two Agip oil wells in Beniboye, last Saturday, have refused to meet on the directive.
Abuja — In a demonstration of support for prominent Niger Delta militant Henry Okah, who the government put in trial in early April, militant leaders have said that they will escalate armed conflict.
"We have pulled out of any peace talks, we have not disarmed so there really is no progress since Henry's arrest," the spokesman for the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) who goes by the name of Jomo Gbomo wrote in an e-mail to IRIN on 13 April.
OGULAGHA and Odimodi communities in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta, which were given a 48 hour ultimatum, expiring today (Wednesday) by the Joint Task Force on the Niger-Delta, Monday, to mutually produce the youths that bombed two Agip oil wells in Beniboye, last Saturday, have refused to meet on the directive.
This Day (Lagos)Warri - Security Joint Task Force (JTF) on Niger Delta yesterday denied that the five persons arrested by its security personnel were on suspected espionage mission to the Niger-Delta.
The spokesman of the JTF, also know as "Operation Restore Hope", Major Omale Ochagwuba, told THISDAY on phone yesterday afternoon that although some foreigners and their Nigerian companion were arrested in the creeks of Delta State, they were not be classified as espionage suspects."It is true that we made some arrests, simply because the foreigners did not obtain clearance from security authorities before embarking on the visit or tour of the creeks," the JTF spokesman said.