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Don't not trust politicians either PDP or APC. Their heart is wicked. My advice for we youths, don't let them turn ourselves against each other. That's what they want.

The Reformed Niger Delta Avengers (RNDA) has
threatened that should former President Goodluck
Jonathan further deny being the Grand Patron of the
Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), it will reveal more
sordid details of their relationship.
The threat is contained in a statement on Wednesday
signed by spokesperson “Cynthia Whyte, in which he said
the very name, “Avengers”, was first mouthed by Mr.
Jonathan.  “Cynthia Whyte” is an alias for the RNDA
spokesperson.
Whyte noted that NDA had been formed to counter the
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger
Delta (MEND), but failed to achieve that objective, adding
that it has not surprised the RNDA that Mr. Jonathan,
as NDA Grand Patron, has distanced himself from the
violent group.
“Like every sponsor, sympathizer and operative earlier
mentioned who has equally denied links with the Avengers,
we can understand the wisdom behind their decision; as
their participation was always meant to becovert,” the
spokesperson said.
Whyte recalled that following a clandestine meeting
in Otuoke, Bayelsa State in 2014 between the GrandPatron
and several unidentified persons ahead of the
Presidential election campaign of 2015, it was agreed that
the Okah brothers should be contacted to reach out to
MEND to endorse Mr. Jonathan and to work with the group
of persons to ensure victory for the PDP and President
Jonathan.  MEND was the suggested tool at the time, the
spokesperson said, because the NDA as a body was not yet
formed.
“Mr. Kingsley Kuku and Mr. Gordon Obuah, [Special
Adviser] on Niger Delta and Chief Security Officer to
President Jonathan, respectively were selected to visit
Charles Okah in Kuje prison,” the spokesperson said.
“Mr. Daniel Alabrah was given the assignment to draft an
endorsement statement for Charles Okah to go through and
pass on to MEND.
According to the account, both men reported back that they
had visited Okah in Kuje prison at night with the promise of
his release along with others should hecooperate to get
MEND to endorse Jonathan.
“It therefore came as a shock when MEND did the opposite
and endorsed Buhari. Mr. Jonathan was livid with anger
and swore that the Okahs would rot in prison.
He said it was also agreed that a show of force be put up
in Yenagoa, where ex-militants led by
Government Ekpemupolo and Kingsley Kuku would threaten
war should the electorate vote in Buhari's favour.
“It was around that period the idea of forming the Niger
Delta Avengers was conceived. In fact the name "Avengers"
came from the lips of Goodluck Jonathan.
“As election day approached, certain stakeholders were
mobilized to form a force to standby and ensure total
anarchy in the South-South and South-East within 24 hours
if the election results were not favourable to Jonathan. It
took everyone by surprise to learn that Mr. Jonathan had
conceded defeat even before the final results
were released. The standby force who were to attack
specific targets were told to stand down. They were all
compensated in US dollars cash.”
He further stated that the Niger Delta Avengers was born
from the failure at the polls and would now be used as an
organ to make the Buhari governmentungovernable, bring
economic hardship and cause hatred for the administration
towards failure at the 2019 general elections.
“MEND was aware of this plot through a spy that could not
be identified, and the group began its campaign to counter
every effort of the NDA and the Biafra agitators to this day,”
the spokesperson said, adding that MEND has been a
thorn in the flesh because its successful propaganda has
caused the current split in the ranks of the NDA.
Whyte concluded: “If former President Jonathan provokes
us further with denials of this revelation, we will reveal more
sordid details. The prison authorities in Kuje who witnessed
the closed door meeting from the outside can attest to that
night visit of November 2014.”

Source: saharareporters.com/2016/08/10/reformed-niger-delta-avengers-discloses-how-nda-was-formed

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has dismissed as
malicious a statement linking him to the militant group,
Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), which has claimed
responsibility for numerous attacks on oil facilities as well
as employees of oil companies in the Niger Delta.
A splinter group, Reformed Niger Delta Avengers (RNDA),
which recently split from the NDA, had issued a statement
earlier today alleging that former President Jonathan was
the “grand patron” of the violent group, NDA.
Speaking briefly to our correspondent from Zambia, where
he is scheduled to monitor elections next week, Mr.
Jonathan dismissed the list released by Cynthia Whyte, an
alias for the spokesman of RNDA.
Former President Jonathan said he would soon issue a
formal statement, but clarified that he was in no way tied to
the NDA. Asked if President Muhammadu Buhari had
invited him to help broker peace in the oil-producing zone,
Mr. Jonathan said he had received no formal request from
his successor. However, he said he was aware that Ijaw
elder, Edwin Clark, was working informally to help restore
stability in the area.
Former President Jonathan said he did not wish to trade
words with “Cynthia Whyte.” He stated that the names of
those listed as alleged sponsors and supporters of NDA
suggested that a political agenda informed the composition
of the list. He asserted that there was absolutely no truth to
the allegation that he was backing the NDA or any other
militant group in the Niger Delta or anywhere else.

Source: saharareporters.com/2016/08/06/former-president-jonathan-denies-sponsoring-niger-delta-avengers

A group that recently split from Niger Delta Avengers
(NDA), a militant organization that has claimed
responsibility for bombing numerous oil facilities,
has claimed that former President Goodluck
Jonathan was the grand patron of the NDA.

In a statement issued today by Cynthia Whyte, an alias for a
male spokesman, the splinter group also named several
former and serving governors as sponsors of the Niger
Delta Avengers. Those named as “sponsors” included
Governors Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and Seriaki
Dickson of Bayelsa.
Mr. Whyte also identified Senator Godswill Akpabio, a
former governor of Akwa Ibom State, ex-militant turned
contractor, Government Ekpemupolo (alias Tompolo),
Raymond Dokpesi, the founder of African Independent
Television (AIT), the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB),
Kingsley Kuku, Kimi Angozi, and Patrick Akpobolokemi as
other sponsors.
The splinter group, which renamed itself Reformed Niger
Delta Avengers (RNDA), had recently declared its opposition
to NDA’s destruction of oil infrastructure in the region,
warning that it would disclose the names of individuals and
groups backing the militant group.

Mr. Whyte’s statement revealed that the NDA’s
sympathizers included Edwin K. Clark, Tony Uranta, Daniel
Alabrah, Ms. Annkio Briggs, and Olisa Metuh, a former
spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The Reformed Niger Delta Avengers named Oyege Nimi
Brown, VIP Timothy, Joshua Macaiver, Paul Bebenimibo
and others as the main operatives of the NDA, adding that
Udengs Eradiri, the president of the Ijaw Youth Council
(IYC), also known as Brigadier General Murdoch Agbinibo,
serve as the NDA’s chief spokesman.
Following the release of the list, a source close to former
President Jonathan told SaharaReporters that there was “no
iota of truth to the claim that former President Goodluck
Jonathan has a hand in the violence in the Niger Delta.”
The source, who asked not to be identified, said he was in
touch with Mr. Jonathan, adding that the former president
was considering issuing a formal statement to dismiss the
claims made by Mr. Whyte.
“If former President Jonathan wanted chaos in Nigeria and
the Niger Delta, he would have refused to concede the
election to General Buhari and the APC,” the source said.

Source: saharareporters.com/2016/08/06/former-president-jonathan-tompolo-akpabio-wike-dokpesi-others-named-sponsors-niger-delta

In a development with significant political implications, Nigeria’s First Lady Aisha Buhari on Wednesday evening arrived in Washington DC on a weeklong visit.  She is billed to attend a number of events in the area.

Sources at the Nigerian Embassy in Washington DC said Mrs. Buhari arrived on a British Airways flight from London.

Her visit is of tremendous interest in Nigeria where Ekiti State governor Ayodele Fayose alleged in June that Mrs. Buhari was involved in the infamous Halliburton scandal, and is the “Aisha Buhari” mentioned in related court documents. 

Our investigations show that there is no “Aisha Buhari” mentioned in the Halliburton scandal.  However, there is one mentioned in the case of former United States congressman William Jefferson, who was convicted on corruption charges in 2009, and to whom “Aisha Buhari” wired the sum of $170,000.   It is to that matter the governor mistakenly appears to allude. 

On several occasions, Governor Fayose asserted that Mrs. Buhari could not enter the US, suggesting she would be arrested, a bluff she has now called.  Investigations by SaharaReporters and the New York Times have categorically stated that the Aisha Buhari mentioned in the court document in reference is not President Buhari's wife.  Nonetheless, Mrs. Buhari has sued Governor Fayose concerning his allegations. 

According to an official invitation letter to her, obtained by SaharaReporters, Mrs. Buhari was expected to have arrived in the United Stastes two days ago, but was held back by official delays in Nigeria.  

Among others, she is expected during her visit to attend meetings at the George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.  She will also be hosted by the United States Institute of Peace, in collaboration with Voice of America, and attend the 25th Anniversary celebration of Zumunta Association USA Inc.

Source: http://saharareporters.com/2016/08/03/aisha-wife-nigerias-president-muhammadu-buhari-arrives-washington-dc

braimeddy:
The only Governor that uses only his mouth to work. Pls who can tell me what ekiti state has achieved so far during his rule?

poverty

This news pain me o. Why una no declare d niger delta republic?
Cowards
Criminals

My Igbo men, ur fellow niger delta are not even talking about Biafra I thought na una start this agitation first.

happen2:
If una call them ijaw , Fulani or Agbero militants. What is important is that, we don't want to tolerate Criminality any more.
If Na Agbero militants kill them,
If Na iPod militants kill them ,
If na Fulani militants Kill them,
If na ijaw militants Kill them..

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Don't forget Adaka Boro Avengers will proclaimed their Niger Delta Republic, has promised.
Ugly Cowards

What baffles me most is those christain universities that collect millions of naira as their tuition fee. They forgot so quick that this same education was brought nigeria for free by some christains. 80% of their member cannot afford to go to the school. SMH

Jengem:
Even me that I have certificate I dont understand, how much less Bubu

Guy u bad o. Den don scatter my brain too

DaBullIT:
He has 3Billion ? no wonder some goats are forming gangs


I don't trust this source though

U want source? Here is it

saharareporters.com/2016/06/15/efcc-freezes-tompolos-bank-account

You dey here with no penny in your pocket dey support criminal wey steal 3billion. Ignorance of the highest order

PMB will blame GEJ for this. #Biafra

My problem is that I lie too much. I need help.

My ibob pple, u can c what buhari has done again. He has failed us why germany vs Ukraine?

Buhari has failed us again my ibo pple.

Blame Buhari.

Blame Buhari

THE Joint Revolutionary Council, JRC, of the Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force, JNDLF, yesterday, warned that it would go after any state governor from the Niger Delta region that betrays the current struggle by militants. The militant group gave the warning on a day the Niger Delta Avengers blew up a key crude oil pipeline, belonging to the Nigerian Agip Oil Company, Agip Eni, in Bayesla State making it the 16th  of such attacks on pipelines since it commenced pipeline bombing on February 10.


JNDLF in a statement by the Commander, General Duties, JNDLF, General Akotebe Darikoro, and three others, also explained why the militant group did not launch six missiles in the region as earlier threatened. The group, which has agreed to engage in dialogue with the Federal Government also made a seven-point demand to forestall further attacks.

Its words: “We shall continue to engage in dialogue if our demands are met. Our representatives for the dialogue, especially the governors and others will not betray our demands with the federal  government. Any betrayal on their own part shall be viewed as betrayal of the entire region and we shall go after them immediately as they know our mode of operation in which they will not escape from us.”

Failed missiles

The group asserted:  “There is no gainsaying that we made our earlier promise to launch six Missiles simultaneously against some targeted areas. But this was waved aside as a result of appeals made to us through email by the Federal Government and some international nations to open talks with (President) Buhari.” “We saw some genuine aspiration on the part of Buhari, who made several contacts to us to see reason with them over the issue of under-development of the region. And since he (Buhari) had set the ball rolling for a clear negotiation with us, there is no problem without solution. We have therefore declared ceasefire in order to negotiate with the government if it is a true reflection of what they have in mind to develop the Niger Delta region”.

The group added that: “We are not ready to negotiate with the federal government for the sake of monetary benefit to us but how genuinely the government will develop the region is at the centre of our discussion and anything less than that we will continue our struggle without further warning to the federal government.”

Conditions to forestall further attacks

The group also gave some conditions which the government must meet in order to avert resumption of struggle which include: “immediate release of the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd) and Dr. Nnamdi Kanu, whose release was ordered by the court severally, pointing out that “their continued detention was unconstitutional and against the tenet of our nascent democracy in the country”. JNDLF also demanded that: “the government must “direct EFCC to defreeze the bank accounts of ex-militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, (a.k.a. Tompolo).  The only Nigerian Maritime University sited in the most appropriate and befitting place – Okerenkoko in Delta State, must start the 2015/2016 academic session immediately;

“The immediate implementation of the report of the 2014 National Conference report, failure of which Nigeria will forcefully break-up. “ Oil-polluted lands in the Niger Delta must be cleaned up, while compensation should be paid to all oil-producing communities, e.g. Chevron fire outbreak of gas explosion in Koluama, Bayelsa state and Bonga Oil Spill in 2011; “Removal of Brigadier General Paul Boroh (rtd.) as an Amnesty Coordinator who does not understand the programmes and policies of the Amnesty and does not know us to the grassroots.

“Hence he (Boroh) should be replaced  with Dr. Felix Tuodolo who has been in the struggle of non-violence since 1980 and he was the designer of the Amnesty programme. The group added: “We carry out all these attacks on oil and gas pipelines in the region because of the statement made by President Buhari that, he will develop those areas that gave him 95% votes during his presidential election last year. We, the Niger Delta people only gave him 5% hence we vowed that our oil money will not be used for the development of any other region. The President should change his mind-set towards the region, if not this will continue.”

JNDLF asserted: “We further thank the American government and other international nations through several emails for prevailing on us not to use missiles, but to come to round table discussion with the federal government. We also thank our foreign partners who have gone back with their chartered submarine vessels. However, if these demands are not met as we have embarked on cease fire now, there will be no further ultimatum to the Nigerian government,” it said.

Avengers blow up Agip ENI crude pipeline in Bayelsa

Meanwhile, while Nigeria is still bleeding over previous  pipeline attacks,  Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, wreaked more pains, Friday, blowing up a key crude oil pipeline, belonging to the Nigerian Agip Oil Company, Agip Eni, in Bayesla State. Barely 24 hours earlier, militants, bombed a crude pipeline belonging to NPDC, a subsidiary of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, around Ogidigben, Warri South-West local government area of Delta state. The unrepentant militants have noticeably spurned the two-week ceasefire by the Federal Government and also turned away from dialogue,

Avengers did not claim responsibility for the Thursday evening attack, initially thought to be an SPDC facility around Ogidigben, Warri South West local government area, Delta state, but in a tweet on its twitter handle, it said: “3.00 am of Friday @Niger Delta Avengers blow up the Obi Obi Brass Trunk line belonging to Agip ENI. It is Agip’s major crude oil line in Bayelsa state.” Joyful about the country’s calamity occasioned by its crushing strikes, the group in another tweet said:  “It is good as foreign refineries stop buying Nigeria oil because the Nigeria state has been robbing the Niger Delta of her oil and gas. We will inform the international community when we are open for business,” NDA added.

On June 2 at about 2:00am, the group blew up the Ogboinbiri to Tebidaba and Clough Creek to Tebidaba crude oil pipelines in Bayelsa State and at about  3:00 am,  blasted the  SPDC Forcados 48″ Export line, saying, “We warned SPDC not to go ahead with repair works but they refused.”

Gbaramatu communities deplore fresh attacks

Reacting to the latest pipeline attack riverside communities in Gbaramatu Kingdom, yesterday, condemned the bombings of crude lines in Bayelsa and Delta States respectively by the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA). Spokesperson of the communities and chairman of Kokodiagbene community, Comrade Sheriff Mulade, said:  ‘’Our position is that the continued bombings of the region in view of the ceasefire arrangement is highly condemnable.  They are technically crippling the economy to enable them get what they want. Therefore, they should not personalize their Niger Delta demands.

“Some of the things they highlighted are what the Niger Delta people are agitating for and violence is not best way to get those things done. We think they are only taking advantage of government’s failure to address these fundamental issues. ‘’We want to draw the attention of these militants to the fact they are destroying our environment which is the only thing that we have. The massive spills these bombings have triggered have devastated the environment and to remediate the environment would take decades to do. So, their acts are roundly condemned,” he said.

In spite of the provocation, Mulade appealed to the federal government to be patient and adopt a more robust intelligence gathering mechanism to fish out the perpetrators whom he described as criminal elements masquerading as Niger Delta agitators. The communities urged the military high command to look inward because they were moles in its ranks and files, who work hands in gloves with the masterminds of the heinous crimes.

Cease bombing or lose support —Onokpasa

In addition, APC chieftain in Delta state, Jesutega Onokpasa, has called on the Niger Delta Avengers to stop bombing pipelines or lose the support of Niger Deltans, He said: “Niger Deltan Avengers and other groups targeting oil and gas facilities should embrace the olive branch extended to them in form of the ceasefire declared by the Federal Government. The Avengers and similar groups must now demonstrate their love for the region by embracing dialogue. Recalcitrance and further destruction of our oil and gas infrastruc

ture on their part will only cast them in the light of vandals and not the freedom fighters they claim to be. The danger in such conduct will have the effect of further alienating the Niger Delta people from them which will prove to be quite ironic since they claim to be fighting our collective cause,” he said.

Onokposa urges Tompolo to intervene

Onokposa added: “I equally call on Government Ekpemupolo, aka Tompolo, wherever he might be to now demonstrate that he can be a part of the solution and not the problem. He has done it before during the Yar’Adua era when he was the last man standing and keyed into the Amnesty Program. “He should strive to do it again and be assured that his intervention will not be construed by reasonable men as indicative of the fact that he masterminded the attacks in the first place. Many people already know that disenchanted former militants, who have returned to armed struggle due to hunger and frustration occasioned by the dynamics of our recent political experience, orchestrated the attacks.

“I therefore urge Tompolo to be part of the solution and to take my advice in good faith in spite of the differences we might have had in the past. At the end of the day, Buhari’s government is the one we have and it needs money to function for our own good. If it cannot function, we will all be the losers if the country collapses on our heads.”

Group faults Buhari

However, Secretary, Gbaramatu Political Forum, Comrade Isaiah Ogah, blamed the recent upsurge in militancy in the region on President Muhammadu Buhari’s desperation to rubbish former President Goodluck Jonathan. Ogah said:  “Buhari demonstrated hatred for the people of Niger Delta, particularly the Ijaws by cancelling the Maritime University at Okerenkoko and proposing six new universities. “I sincerely appeal to the Niger Avengers to please embrace dialogue for the sake of the innocent Nigerian people.

“We are waiting also for the military to apologize to the people of Gbaramatu kingdom for the unwarranted harassment and inhuman treatment of criminalizing us in the wake of the attacks,” he asserted. Ogah further called on the Delta gtate governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, to visit Gbaramatu to assuage the pains suffered by the king and victims of military harassment.

Bid to bomb Tuomo gas pipeline thwarted

In a related development, security operatives, have foiled an attempt by suspected militants to blow up the Tuomo gas pipeline in Bayelsa state after blasting the Agip crude oil pipeline in the early hours of Friday (June 10). A source said security agents pursued the leader of the gang, one VIP, suspected to be from Azagbene community in Ekeremor local government and four others, but they escaped into the mangrove swamp.

NDA attack timeline 

(Not less than 16 attacks between February 10 and June 9)

* February 10, 2016: At about 1:30 am,  the group attacked the Bonny Soku Gas Export Line. The line conveys natural gas to the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas plant and an independent power plant at Gbaran in the Niger Delta.

* February 14:  It attacked an SPDC giant underwater Forcados 48-inch Export Pipeline at the Forcados Export Terminal.

* February 19:   At about 3:30 a.m, blew up the Clough Creek Tebidaba Agip Pipeline Manifold in Bayelsa State.

* May 4:   Attacked the Chevron Valve Platform located at Abiteye. This platform is reportedly the most significant platform for Chevron as it serves as the main connecting point where all other platforms link up and it is a fulcrum to Chevron BOP and the Chevron Tank Farm.

* May 5:  Launched a coordinated attack on the Chevorn Well D25 in Abiteye and blew up major pipelines. *May 13:  Bombed a Chevron pipeline at two separate spots near a military location

* May 20:  It attacked the Escravos Gas Pipeline, a facility of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, in Delta State.

*May 25:  NDA Struck Chevron main electricity feed pipeline to the Escravos Tank Farm  at Ciera creek in Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State.

* May 27:  Destroyed the Nembe 1, 2 and 3 Brass to Bonny trunk lines belonging to Nigerian Agip Oil Company, NAOC and Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC in Bayelsa State at about 2.15am on Saturday

*May 27: Blew up NNPC Gas and Crude trunk lines in Warri at 11.45 pm

*May 31: Blew up Chevron Oil Well RMP 23 and RMP 24 believed to the company’s highest swamp producing oil wells at about 3:44 am

*June 1:  It carried out twin -attack on Well RMP 23 and RMP 24 owned by Chevron Nigeria Limited. Both wells are located at Dibi in Warri South West local government area of Delta State.

*June 2:  About 2.00 am, it also bombed the Ogboinbiri to Tebidaba and Clough Creek to Tebidaba Crude oil pipelines in Bayelsa State.

*June 3: At about 3:00 am, it blew up the SPDC Forcados 48″ Export line in Delta State because the company went ahead with repair works against its warning

*June 3: At about 3:30am, strike team blew up Brass to Tebidaba Crude oil line in Bayelsa state.

*June 9:  At 3:am of Friday, NDA blew up the Obi Obi Brass Trunk line belonging to Agip ENI. It is Agip’s Major Crude oil Line in Bayelsa State







www.vanguardngr.com/2016/06/militants-threaten-attack-govs-2/

By June ending mr fashola and his pple must been able to generate 12,000MW.

Naija have faith

Ademusiwa1:
[size=28pt]Your questions, young man should have been. What have the obi of Onitsha achieve in the last 1 year. Because you are from the east.



If someone is from Scotland. He has to be focus on Scotland.

You are from the east be focus in the east. Buhari jobs is to travel , he has been to. 25 countries. Buhari job is only a job like the prime minister.

So you people should cooperate with the obi of Onitsha . because you are not Buhari problem.




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Pls who is this guy? Nairaland sef

Progressive01:
What are you prattling on endlessly about?? Did you even read what the op wrote at all or just ran to type rubbish after reading just the title so you fellow bigots can "dash you likes"??

Even if it sells for $1, 000per barrell and we are exporting at this rate, the impact would hardly be felt mr man. You keep jumping all over the place when the terrorists blow up pipelines yet you want Buhari to perform magic with the economy.

Mtscheeew.

The level of illiteracy in this forum is high just like the guy u corrected. Its either they are being tribalistic or they are religiously blindfolded.

U said it ursef that obasanjo hit the ground from day one. Why can't ur buhari slap the ground from day 2?

Nonsense analysis.

Politician and their running mouth.

I remember vividly during occupy nigeria when buhari said subsidy is a scam. He said there is nothing like fuel subsidy. Why the change of mouth. Politician are all the same. They are bunch of hearthless people. Why this time of hardship you remove subsidy.
Dollar is 330
Hike in electricity trariff
Now petrol 145

All this within a year. Buhari is an idiot, very heartly human being. Come arrest for my house. Thunder fire u

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