Tag: Militant
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CRUDE OIL THEFT: Militia group in Bayelsa allegedly recruits youths
Militant group recruits Bayelsa 6
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Israel kills senior militant commander in Gaza – Military
Israel on Monday assassinated Hasam Abu Harbid, a senior militant commander in the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces said, triggering a fresh barrage of rockets on Israeli cities. Israel’s Shin Bet security service and the military said in a joint statement that warplanes struck and killed the commander of the Northern Division of the Palestinian Islamic…
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Photo: Ex-militant, Tompolo makes first public appearance after six years
Former militant leader Government Oweizide Ekpemupolo aka Tompolo has made his first public appearance after hiding from security agencies for six years. Tompolo, who led the disbanded Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), went underground immediately President Muhammadu Buhari was sworn in in 2015, as the Federal Government deployed troops to fish him out.…
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Court sentences three militants to death over bombings
Somali military court on Wednesday sentenced three al-Shabab militants to death after they were found guilty of being behind the hotel bombing in October last year, officials said. Chairperson of the Military Court, Hassan Ali Nur Shute, said the militants admitted to charges of carrying out attack on Nasa-hablod II Hotel in which more than…
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Ex-militants demand relocation of oil coys to Niger Delta
Ex-agitators under the Federal Government Amnesty Programme has opposed reported plans by the Federal Government (FG) to terminate the Presidential Amnesty Programme in 2018. Ex-militant leader and Chairman, Amnesty Phase 11 in Delta State, Ambassador (Chief) Kingsley Muturu said the laudable intentions of the initiative is far from being achieved. Muturu advised that the FG…
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Arrested militant, Oyawerikumor Peregbabofa leader killed in ambush – JTF
The Joint Task Force (JTF), Operation Delta Safe (ODS), on Friday confirmed that a militant leader in its custody, Oyawerikumor Peregbabofa, popularly known in the creeks of the Niger Delta as Karaowei, was later killed in an ambush. This was revealed by JTF’s Coordinator, Joint Media Campaign Centre (JMCC), Maj. Ibrahim Abdullahi in a statement…
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Army confirms death of officer, 4 policemen in Ikorodu
The Nigerian Army in Lagos on Sunday confirmed the death of a soldier and four policemen in an ambush by suspected criminal gangs in Ishawo Community in Ikorodu. This is contained in a statement by 81 Division’s Acting Deputy Director, Public Relations, Lt.-Col. Olaolu Saudi. “At about 3 a.m. on Sunday, April 9, a patrol…