Nigerian national dailies of today, January 18, centered on the tension brewing in the Niger Delta region following the renewed hostilities by some militants in Delta state.


Vanguard reports that the Nigerian military on Sunday, January 17, stormed some Ijaw communities in Gbaramatu kingdom, Warri South-West local government area with gunboats in search of the militants, who carried out a three-day bombing of crude oil and gas pipelines in the state, from last Thursday.

The Joint Task Force Commander of Operation Pulo Shield in the Niger Delta, Major General Alani Okunola, who spoke with journalists, disclosed that the task force was closing in on the militants that blew up oil and gas pipelines belonging to the Nigeria Gas Company, Chevron Nigeria Limited and Nigeria National Petroleum Company, NNPC. He promised that JTF would fish out the culprits.

The chairman of Okpelama, an Ijaw town in Gbaramatu kingdom, Mr. Moses Yabrade, confirmed that that soldiers invaded his community in the midnight of Saturday, breaking houses but stressed that he did not know the purpose of their mission. Read more;

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