A militant group called the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate on Thursday claimed an attack on a crude pipeline in Delta state operated by the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, a subsidiary of the NNPC. The NDGJM said in a statement it had blown up the Unenurhie-Evwreni pipeline “to prove to the wicked and ungrateful multinational oil companies and their Nigerian … Read More
The Ceasefire in Niger Delta Threatened by Local Anger at Military
An agreed ceasefire in the Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta is in danger of being derailed by anger at the military over the death of an elderly local leader. The Niger Delta Avengers group, whose attacks on oil pipelines in the southern region crippled crude output earlier this year and pushed Africa’s biggest economy into recession, said in August it agreed … Read More