•Blows up NNPC crude, gas trunk lines in Delta

•Elevates fighters to the rank of Brigadier-general

•Ijaw youths give condition for dialogue By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South-South, Egufe Yafugborhi, Perez Brisibe &Akpokona Omafuaire AFTER blowing up additional gas and crude oil trunk lines belonging to the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, in Delta State, in a twin attack, Thursday night, the Niger Delta Avengers yesterday issued a notice to the Nigerian Military, International and Indigenous Oil Companies, IOCs, to watch out for “something big.”




The fear was that the operation of the daring militant group was about to become bloody and enter the phase of abduction, which it warned about earlier. The double attack at 11.45 pm, Thursday, around Batan community in Warri South-West Local Government had sunk the nation into deeper economic quagmire.


The latest attack came less than 24 hours after two Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) facilities were hit reportedly grounding its swamp operations in Delta. Apparently amused at the depression its activities were causing the nation, the leadership of the group, in a statement by its spokesperson, Col Mudoch Agbinibo, yesterday, announced the promotion of the fighters, who carried out the devastating attacks to the rank of Brigadier-General.


“To the IOCs, indigenous oil companies and Nigerian Military, watch out, something big is about to happen and it will shock the whole world,” the group tweeted before announcing that “the high command has rewarded some brave and courageous soldiers of Avengers and promoted them to the rank of Brig.General.” The Avengers at 8.00 am, Friday, tweeted that it attacked an NNPC Gas and Crude trunk line close to Warri, Delta State at about 11:45pm on Thursday. The tweet read: “At 11:45PM on Thursday, @Niger Delta Avengers blew up another NNPC Gas and Crude trunk line, close to Warri, a pipeline that was heavily guarded by the military.”

Moments later, it dismissed the stakeholders’ meeting in Abuja on Wednesday between government officials and supposed militants as an affront to the people of the region. The tweet read: “The Niger Delta stakeholders meeting is an insult to the people of the Niger Delta. What we need is a sovereign state not pipeline contracts.”



Earlier in the month after the group bombed Chevron’s Valve Platform, it said: “This is just the beginning and you have not seen anything yet. We will make you suffer as you have made the people of Niger Delta suffered over the years from environmental degradation, and environment pollution.”


Avengers’ spokesperson, Col Mudoch hinted that the commander of its strike team 9 is from Eastern Nigeria, while the commander of strike team 6 that blew up the platform is an Itsekiri and the commander of the elite team one from Akwa Ibom State.


The group had also warned owners and operators of oil blocs in the region to shut down their operations and evacuate their staff latest May 26, saying “if at the end of the ultimatum, you are still operating, we will blow up all the locations. It will be bloody. So just shut down your operations and leave.”


As at the time of this report, attempts to speak with the NNPC spokesperson, Garuba Mohammad was fruitless, while security sources in the area were yet to confirm the alleged attack. However, security sources confirmed a twin attack by the group on Wednesday night. An official of the Ijaw Youth Council corroborated claims by the militants that they attacked pipelines operated by the NNPC around Batan community in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State. The Pipelines, Product Marketing Company and Nigerian Petroleum Development Company Limited, both subsidiaries of NNPC operate the damaged pipelines. According to a security source, both crude and gas trunk lines were severely affected in the attacks. Locals in the affected community said they heard series of explosions and people thrown into panic, as they did no.....

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Nigerdelta brace yourselves for another boko haram. Those supporting the NDA will soon know what suicide bombing, stray bullets, abductions and child rape really means.

The same people supporting NDA will be the ones to beg FG to come to their rescue. Cos its the same pattern. When the power of violence gets into the head of the militants, theres to restraint to their attrocities

blackpanda:
Nigerdelta brace yourselves for another boko haram. Those supporting the NDA will soon know what suicide bombing, stray bullets, abductions and child rape really means.

The same people supporting NDA will be the ones to beg FG to come to their rescue. Cos its the same pattern. When the power of violence gets into the head of the militants, theres to restraint to their attrocities

The smarter thing would be to beg them, not scare or threaten them. And also, the people are not NDA.

ofcourrrse...we know its the easterners mostly causing this troubles.....

when are they blowing up pipes and petrol-stations in the east??....

We dey close yet so far Nigeria

osinbanjoisaliar:

The smarter thing would be to beg them, not scare or threaten them. And also, the people are not NDA.

Really That would be the dumbest thing. FG to beg militants. Really?? Where in the world does government beg terrorists? That will just be the end of the country. Everywhere will erupt in flames. All manner of groups will start carrying out their own

Government shld never be weaker than its citizens otherwise it loses control and falls into chaos. The best thing is to start looking elsewhere for revenue and mount an unprecedented assault on the militants. Nigerian army must never be seen to be weak otherwise we are finished!

The country is already in a mess and this guys are making things worse. God help us


Don't like my post, I'm ugly

E dun be for Nigeria

blackpanda:


Really That would be the dumbest thing. FG to beg militants. Really?? Where in the world does government beg terrorists? That will just be the end of the country. Everywhere will erupt in flames. All manner of groups will start carrying out their own

Government shld never be weaker than its citizens otherwise it loses control and falls into chaos. The best thing is to start looking elsewhere for revenue and mount an unprecedented assault on the militants. Nigerian army must never be seen to be weak otherwise we are finished!

The army is already weakened!! You can see the militants are having it too easy

cktheluckyman:

The army is already weakened!! You can see the militants are having it too easy

That they are not bombing or opening fire on a large scale doesnt mean they are weak. The army has to contend with amnesty international, human rights lawyers and the international community, while NDA doesnt have to. But we are gradually getting to that point

What this guys need for GOd's sake?

cktheluckyman:

The army is already weakened!! You can see the militants are having it too easy

Nigerian army have never been weak



Nigeria politics is so bad



if the army shoot one bullet they will call it genocide

tsdarkside:
ofcourrrse...we know its the easterners mostly causing this troubles.....

when are they blowing up pipes and petrol-stations in the east??....

U have been told in clearer terms to go to farm as way of diversifying ur own pocket. How crude oil and pipeline ur headache still amazes me. The era of reliance on crude oil is over and u are becoming apparently lazy by the day.

Keep shouting igbos this igbos that.

Iykopeeee:



U have been told in clearer terms to go to farm as way of diversifying ur own pocket. How crude oil and pipeline ur headache still amazes me. The era of reliance on crude oil is over and u are becoming apparently lazy by the day.

Keep shouting igbos this igbos that.

which farm,when the ol place is conterminated with oel...?...how do you grow something on conterminated soil..??


that you even write something like this,tells me you are extremly evil...

ss and se dont belong together...

ss is with sw and the north...we want nothing to do with the se...

evacuete all igbo speaking people in the ss to se nowwwwwwwwwwwwww.....we dont want you around us.......go away...!!!

by d time army start dere own, these yeye Pple go dey cry that they kill them mama and papa

Bari22:
What this guys need for GOd's sake?

That you muslim abookies stay on your own in Islamic republic of Arewa and rule yourselves without the kaffurs in the south! Is that too much to ask?

I think that ipob is funding these guys

blackpanda:


That they are not bombing or opening fire on a large scale doesnt mean they are weak. The army has to contend with amnesty international, human rights lawyers and the international community, while NDA doesnt have to. But we are gradually getting to that point

If the army knows where the militants are, they should go after them and no one will blink!! Attack innocent civilians and live to regret it

tsdarkside:


which farm,when the ol place is conterminated with oel...?...how do you grow something on conterminated soil..??


that you even write something like this,tells me you are extremly evil...

ss and se dont belong together...

ss is with sw and the north...we want nothing to do with the se...

evacuete all igbo speaking people in the ss to se nowwwwwwwwwwwwww.....we dont want you around us.......go away...!!!

Mr muslim 'We SS'. We know you are a member of the yoruba muslim egbesu confraternity (YMEC) who still believe that Ibos are the problem propaganda can still sell in the East of the Niger. A dey laugh!

adenine02:




Nigerian army have never been weak



Nigeria politics is so bad



if the army shoot one bullet they will call it genocide

The Nigerian military under Buhari is weak and useless!! This guys have been attacking oil installations on daily basis and they have been unable to foil their attacks!!

HammerTheirPapa:


That you muslim abookies stay on your own in Islamic republic of Arewa and rule yourselves without the kaffurs in the south! Is that too much to ask?

and you,leave the north and lagos.....we are tired of your one-sided arguments...you are not helping us...you are helping the naija avengers to destroy us...you should be trying to stop them from conterminating our area,if you were a true big-brother...

you people are nothing but pvssies and evil-doers and evil-thinkers...

to hell with you and kanu....we dont need you....go away..!!

get behind us,satan!!!....

HammerTheirPapa:


Mr muslim 'We SS'. We know you are a member of the yoruba muslim egbesu confraternity (YMEC) who still believe that Ibos are the problem can still sell in the East of the Niger. A dey laugh!

The guy is only attaching their parasitic ass on the ss because of oil.They hate ss people even more than the igbos

tsdarkside:


which farm,when the ol place is conterminated with oel...?...how do you grow something on conterminated soil..??


that you even write something like this,tells me you are extremly evil...

ss and se dont belong together...

ss is with sw and the north...we want nothing to do with the se...

evacuete all igbo speaking people in the ss to se nowwwwwwwwwwwwww.....we dont want you around us.......go away...!!!

Joke joke joke! Yea u are a joke of a bloke. Hahahahahahaha. A referendum is the icing. Can u do that? U might not cos the result is damn obvious. I know ur fear. parasitism is under serious threat now.

By the way, didnt u see where itshekiri, ijaw and akwa ibom were mentioned in the OP? so why single out igbo alone to crucify just so to pacify ur hateful mindset? Hate kills, better go to farm now.

adenine02:




Nigerian army have never been weak



Nigeria politics is so bad



if the army shoot one bullet they will call it genocide

Shoot one bullet at who.? If civilians, then get ready to visit ICC.

we have in all areas and in the north and west

tsdarkside:


and you,leave the north and lagos.....we are tired of your one-sided arguments...you are not helping us...you are helping the naija avengers to destroy us...you should be trying to stop them from conterminating our area,if you were a true big-brother...

you people are nothing but pvssies and evil-doers and evil-thinkers...

to hell with you and kanu....we dont need you....go away..!!

get behind us,satan!!!....

Ok mr yoruba muslim.

tsdarkside:


which farm,when the ol place is conterminated with oel...?...how do you grow something on conterminated soil..??


that you even write something like this,tells me you are extremly evil...

ss and se dont belong together...

ss is with sw and the north...we want nothing to do with the se...

evacuete all igbo speaking people in the ss to se nowwwwwwwwwwwwww.....we dont want you around us.......go away...!!!

Yoruba boy deceiving himself.

Iykopeeee:



Joke joke joke! Yea u are a joke a of bloke. Hahahahahahaha. A referendum is the icing. Can u do that? U might not cos the result is damn obvious. I know ur fear. parasitism is under serious threat now.

By the way, didnt u see where itshekiri, ijaw and akwa ibom were mentioned in the OP? so why single out igbo alone to crucify just so to pacify ur hateful mindset? Hate kills, better go to farm now.

sheisse.....hold your referendum yourself,and bring the result to the senate...you dont need us for that.....
all what you need is a block of paper,even okrika paper will do,and pen..go around and collect signatures in the entire east..
but dont dear cross border to the delta...you are not welcomed..

for your information the ss is holding no referendum on your behalf...in our time of distress,you were cheering our enemies,destroying our area..

let us be....we want nothing to do with you...

get thee behind us,satan!!!...

cktheluckyman:

If the army knows where the militants are, they should go after them and no one will blink!! Attack innocent civilians and live to regret it

ICC waiting for Buhari if he tries any shit with civilians.

British government are already warning him

Hmm, heard that they blow up another Bonny Trunk Line belonging to Agip and Shell.. This morning Saturday 28th May, around 2:15am..

How true is this news, any confirmation?

EasternLeopard:



ICC waiting for Buhari if he tries any shit with civilians.

British government are already warning him

It's not just the ICC,the militants would also go haywire. Furthermore it would make recruitment easier for the militants