Fighters with the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) raise their riffles to celebrate news of a successful operation by their colleagues against the Nigerian army in the Niger Delta on September 17, 2008. Since then an uneasy peace has been maintained in the region.
During the 2000s, militants in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria decimated the country’s oil production and murdered pipeline workers. After several years of relative security, militancy in the region appears to be rearing its head again, according to analysts.

Oil pipelines in the Niger Delta—which comprises nine states in southern Nigeria—were attacked on Friday and over the weekend, shortly after a Nigerian court ordered the arrest of Government Ekpemupolo—known as Tompolo—an ex-militant in the region who has been accused of corruption worth $175 million. Nigerian Power Minister Babatunde Fashola said on Tuesday that the attacks and lost resources were costing the country $2.4 million per day.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari appeared to take a hard line on those responsible for the attacks, whom he called “oil thieves and abductors.” Stating on Tuesday that his army had already dealt “deadly blows” to Boko Haram, Buhari said the
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