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Military averts oil pipeline attack, 19 militants arrested

Nigerian military, on Friday, announced that it has apprehended 19 suspected oil militants as they tried to blow up an oil pipeline. According to a statement issued by the Coordinator of Joint Media Campaign Centre, Colonel Isa Ado, the militants were about to blow up an oil pipeline operated by the Nigerian subsidiary of Italy’s... Read More

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February 26, 2014

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Ogaga Ifowodo: The unending military seige on Delta State

by Ogaga Ifowodo Checkpoints are an extreme policing device suitable only for a town under military occupation. They are to be used sparingly and only for a specific and immediate goal, then promptly dismantled. As I ranted against military checkpoints—they are a gratuitous infliction of pain; Delta is a densely populated state that also happens... Read More