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Nigerian security forces clashed with oil militants and Biafran secessionists in separate bloody confrontations Monday that killed at least 20 civilians and two police officers, officials and witnesses. The violence erupted in Nigeria's restive south as the military mounted an offensive in the oil rich south-central Niger Delta and separatists protested in the southeast.

Over the weekend, soldiers fired on speedboats believed to be carrying Niger Delta militants preparing to strike oil installations and killed or wounded an unknown number, army spokesman Col. Sani Kukasheka Usman said.

The Ijaw Youth Council, a community group, accused soldiers of firing Saturday night on a speedboat trying to evacuate civilians wounded in a military siege of Oporoza, a town reachable only by water or air.

Community leaders say civilians have been wounded and beaten up by soldiers demanding that residents hand over members of the Niger Delta Avengers, a new group that has claimed attacks on strategic pipelines that have halved oil production in a country that used to be Africa's biggest petroleum producer.

The offensive comes as the Avengers have mounted an increasingly fierce campaign targeting oil installations. In recent days, facilities belonging to the Dutch-British Shell company, Italy's Agip, and the U.S. oil giant Chevron have been targeted.

The Avengers have given the oil companies a May 31 deadline to leave Nigeria's southern, oil-producing Niger Delta.

"Watch out something big is about to happen and it will shock the whole world," the Avengers warned Saturday, addressing international and indigenous oil companies and Nigeria's military.

Army chief Maj. Gen. Tukur Buratai said the army will not tolerate the militants "killing our soldiers," but did not provide any details about military casualties. Local residents have reported the deaths of at least 10 army and navy personnel and about 30 police officers in the Niger Delta this year.

Community chieftain Elekute Macaulay said reinforcements arrived early Monday at Oporoza to widen the military siege. He said half of the 40,000 inhabitants have fled to the bush and creeks, and others are afraid to leave their homes.

In separate developments, security forces battled secessionists rallying to commemorate heroes of the 1967-1970 civil war to create a separate state of Biafra in southeast Nigeria. About 1 million people died in that war.

On Monday, five civilians and two police officers were killed during protests by secessionists in the southeastern city of Asaba, according to police Superintendent Charles Muka.

The secessionists said another 15 civilians were killed further south in Onitsha, but police said nobody was killed because security forces never used live ammunition to disperse the crowd.

About 600 people have been arrested, the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra said. Police said the protests were illegal because organizers did not have permits.

The Niger Delta Avengers have said they may ally themselves with the Biafran secessionists and make similar demands for a breakaway state from Nigeria.

Soldiers in the Niger Delta are demanding that villagers turn over fighters of the Avengers, and its alleged leader Government "Tompolo" Ekpemupolo, Macaulay said. Tompolo has denied involvement with the Avengers but the attacks began shortly after an arrest warrant was issued for him that claimed the theft of money from government contracts to guard oil installations.

Oil militants are angry that the government is winding down a 2009 amnesty program that paid 30,000 militants to guard the installations they once attacked. They are demanding a bigger share of Nigeria's oil wealth for residents of the Niger Delta, where oil pollution has destroyed the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of farmers and fishermen


Was it not actions of the MEND .MASSOB and NDVPF that spilled / polluted the lands in the first place ?


http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/nigeria-military-launch-offensive-oil-producing-south-39483051

Had a similar experience , in my case they asked for 200k despite showing my ID card , my paint mixing machine and my receipts from Banggood where i shop to sell my goods in Nigeria, I was pepper sprayed, they took me to their office , I have cousins and aunts in the Nigerian Army, Navy and Airforce, one call to them would have changed the situation , eventually they let me go , but not until someone paid them 8k to thier disappointment, I still regret not calling my links , it would have been a pleasure watching and recording them get beaten


We really need to do something about the impunity of the so called SARS officers

Enjoy celebrating failure

Stage one completed

Stage two : issue subpoena / warrant



Stage three : deploy Dss and EFCC to surroundings


Stage four : arrest suspect


Stage five : Detain suspect for 3 days


Stage six : Detain for two weeks

Sage 7 : release suspect

Stage 8 ; confessions and recovery of funds





Sai Baba

Hehehe



Igbo fiful


Your list goes on and on but I'll. Ask dabullit to come and comment abi your ban never finish?

We don hear this one before



Buhari no go die unless to ba di 120

Yoruba lo sure ju




So proud of my heritage



Yorubas are reasonable, peaceful and wise


I don't care what haters say

Aregbe will do his best

desmond2pk:
Lol. Massive looting by obj, atiku, saraki, el rufai. Are they all not a pc?

I never said they are innocent or saints, I never said Apc is perfect, what I call impunity is when a new administration refuses to probe the previous ones


If you have prof, get them to. EFCC if not my brother


Keeeeep qwayet

Hehehheehehehe


. Later now dem go say 5 million people Don murd



Na you do you




Nigerian army. Carry on. Abeg

Dem those mumus go come here con tell us say na innocenti dem these ones be baaa?



Innocent or guilty catch dem torture them, make. Dem. Confess if na Jonathan dey sponsor them

I no like the source but avengers get fake 1?


Abi for your mind them go wear battle khaki carry machine gun as you dey see them for propaganda photon


Hehehheheh

Dabullit you talk am say he go happen now dem Don see am, now dem don dey run enter bush just like Tompolo, Jonathan Dokubo


Dem never hear wheeeeeen

#workingpeople

No picture evidence ?


Fantasy writing , quite creative



but disappointing

i still believe Buhari will decide and do what a Rtd General should do

DRISKLEF:
1 i think what we need from the PDP right now is criticisms that are 'pretty much', very constructive.

2 PDP doesn't have any moral jurisdiction or whatsoever to start calling or pointing fingers when they've been the ones in power for about 16 years with nothing to show for it.

3 I think these guys are all the same and if at-all they really want to make-up for their mistakes - they should start taking steps that'll convince the populace by first; being a credible opposition and by suggesting lasting solutions to the problems we're presently in.

One.

What i need from the PDP right now is to Shut the Fucccked Up

No they don't have the moral jurisdiction, they are shameless and disgusting to even show their faces or speak of Buhari

and by suggesting lasting solutions to the problems they created for Nigeria with massive looting and impunity

Let them start by reducing child prostitution and baby factories


Propaganda , just like ISIS , pretending to have the interested of the kids at heart, but they won't hesitate to .............. in their bush and creeks



Yeye pipu

Official exchange rate is 199 and without that light , the pure water in my freezer wouldn't have gotten frozen

try another lie

tonio2wo:
So u fuel ur car and gen everyday! Okponu!

BEST

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Meanwhile somewhere in EFCC Custody , FFK is groaning in pains

they said it's impossible


Now that it's done , they won't leave lagos any sooner



#Lagooners

thats a fat lie

bull does not go looking for trouble but he always speaks against ibo's attitude towards several things


i seem to remember you wrote on your signature that if you get banned its a comment to him , the comment yiu took screen grab of it

so lol i knows bull and i know you / your history with him

BushidoBlue:
Show ke? Your thread must bash Igbos or iPod or PDP or GEJ before dem show

I follow dabullit with passion and even though he's sometimes too emotional , he's a good researcher and most of his comments are realistic , i wonder if that entity is a professor ?


My point is , When a group wants to believe they are more powerful than the government , the government will have no choice than to decimate them and strike fear into their hearts for generations

The Odi incident was well documented and these people are playing the same game with the same rule with the same set of actors , copy and paste from 1967 and as Bull always said, it won't end well , even several people are disappointed that Buhari is giving them a consideration for negotiating, that shouldn't even be !! Shagari said if you give ibos a chance , they always misuse it and try to take over . which is what happened in the past and it's still happening now

Religious sentiments apart, those killed in Zaria were northerners like the president and he did not hesitate to decimate them because if you research a bit , those worshippers have long history of violence, assault and barricading roads and even killings, No one can tell if Buhari gave the kill order, but whoever did has not been dismissed from Military service

Army probably knew they would do what they did , and they brought cameras to record the blockage , and even recorded the highest ranking officer trying to negotiate with the hoodlums to leave the road


Bottom line is one day , someone will make a terrible mistake , be it the sponsor or the members of the so called avengers and i believe Buhari will unleash full wrath of terror on them, Check wiki leaks cable, even US wants Buhari to stand firm and fight the fraudsters call avengers and they are willing to give any support they can basically because they believe Buhari is doing the right thing

A word is enough for the wise, but in this case, i hope an air raid , a bomb is enough for agitators

Aura2:
it is unconvincing that a Niger delta group will demand the release of an oil less umuahia man, Nnamdi kanu.

Avengers = IPOB, IPOB = Avengers.

I'd call that epiphany , but others will tell you it's madness, IPOB, MEND, AVENGERS , all are the same , with the main aim of making profits for their pockets , not the betterment of Nigeria or Niger Delta and as i have always suspected this is a Ibo ploy to make the country ungovernable for PMB , some people will say karma is a biatch but when Boko haram came they didn't destroy Nigeria's economy for their selfish gains and they didn't venture outside thier north

The New IPOB touts are like attack dogs , someone throws them a bone and they go a-bombing , Sooner or later , Buhari and Nigeria , Especially Nigerians will be fed up because only Easterners ( i don't care if it's ND,SS,SE,IJAW,PH or hell ) look for trouble and turn back around to play victims


Buhari should start deploying soldiers right away , that is the only way to give them what they want ,

Which i believe is either war , or instant death , but secession it's not happening in 100 years

Buhari needs to tighten his grip, forget the noises and destroy vandals once and for all ,

Exactly and they want to continue by sponsoring bombing pipelines

imohchard:
OK.. Am not a wailer nor a zombie..

But I don't get the humor in that..
Or is pop admitting that they are looters?

EgbereTv news as dabullit will say

even if it were true, i am sure Tompolo is not stewpyd enough to come back to Nigeria for any contract


But never say never , greed makes you do the most unthinkable

aNOTHER LETTER , and they said he's not on the run

Enjoy it while it lasts ,