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Nigeria: MEND Claims Responsibility for Attack On Police Boats in Bayelsa
Premium Times, 10 February 2014
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, has claimed responsibility for Saturday's attack on two Police gunboats in Bayelsa State. Read more »
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Nigeria: NNPC Restores Escravos-Lagos Gas Pipeline As MEND Vows Fresh Attack
Premium Times, 10 February 2014
The restoration of supply on the pipeline would enable an equivalent of about 1,505 MW of electricity to be generated and injected into the national grid. Read more »
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Nigeria: Police Deny Complicity in Bayelsa Attack
Daily Trust, 10 February 2014
Bayelsa State Police Commissioner Hillary Okpara has denied claims that three gun boats were deployed by the police authority for the Saturday morning's attack on the Peremabiri… Read more »
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Nigeria: Policemen, Suspected Militants Exchange Gunfire in Bayelsa Creeks
This Day, 9 February 2014
Twenty policemen and an ex-militant leader narrowly escaped death yesterday when they ran into an ambush by unidentified gunmen who opened fire on them along the creeks of the… Read more »
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Nigeria: Gunboat Shoot-Out Reported in Bayelsa Community
Premium Times, 8 February 2014
Anxiety and tension enveloped Peremabiri Community, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State in the early hours of Saturday as youth from the area resisted a gunboat… Read more »
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Nigeria: MEND Claims Attack, Abduction of Agip's Personnel
This Day, 27 January 2014
Dreaded militant group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), has claimed responsibility for last weekend armed attack on the tug boat belonging to the Agip… Read more »