Four days after they were killed in Delta community, the Nigerian Army Defence Headquarter, has revealed the identity of the slain soldiers. The Defence Headquarters had also responded to some media publications. According to the released by the Nigerian Army Defence Headquarters, Seventeen (17) Soldiers were gruesomely murdered in the unfortunate incident. RESORT TO PROPAGANDA BY OKUAMA COMMUNITY IN THE FACE OF GRUESOME MURDER OF TROOPS ON PEACE MISSION IS CALLOUS AND TOTALLY CONDEMNABLE The unfortunate killing of troops of 181 Amphibious Battalion of the Nigerian Army (NA),…
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Nigerian Army Bar Journalists From Covering Okuama Destruction As Governor Oborevwori Visits Scene
The Nigerian Army, on Monday, prevented journalists from accompanying the Delta Governor, Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori to access the extent of destruction at the warring communities of Okoloba and Okuama in Bomadi and Ughelli South Local Governments Area. Governor Sheriff who had visited the communities held a closed door meeting with the Military for over an hour. The Delta state governor, was received by the leader of the military JTF, General Officer Commanding 6 Division Nigeria Army, Major General Jamaal Abdulsalam. The military Joint Task Force, however, barred journalists from…
Read MoreOkuama: UNYC President condemns killing and destruction of properties
By Gradeone Henry The acting National President of the Urhobo National Youth Congress(UNYC), Prince Comr. Austin Emuetama has recently condemned the approach of the Nigeria Military that led to destruction of lives and properties in Okuama community in Ughelli South of Delta State. He stated this while addressing newsmen in the group secretariat yesterday and caution the military to do a proper investigation on what led to the killing of it’s personal while dispatching their duties in the riverine community. The President who condemned in totality the killing of the…
Read MoreNicholas Mutu Condemns Killing Of The Army In Delta
Member of the House of Representatives, representing Bomadi/Patani Federal Constituency of Delta State, Hon. Nicholas Mutu has condemned Thursday’s killing of 16 soldiers by some irate youths of Okuama community, an Urhobo enclave in Ughelli South Local Government Area of the state. Mutu, who is the Chairman of the Gas Committee in the House, described the action as “barbaric and inhuman.” Mutu, who is also the Chairman of the Southern Nigeria Carcus in the House of Representatives, made his position on the tragic incident known in a statement issued by his…
Read MoreLocal Security Recover Corpses Of Killed Police Officers In Delta By Herdsmen
The corpse of some of the killed police officers drafted from IRT Abuja, PMF 51 Oghara and Anti-Kidnapping Squad, Asaba in Delta state to rescue the three missing officers in Ohoror community, have been recovered by at by a team of local security agents In Ughelli North Local Government Area of the state. Though the identity of the decomposing deceased officers recovered from the bush could not be ascertained as at the time of this report, but it was gathered that the combined team stormed the forest on Sunday…
Read MoreDelta Court Discharges Chief Gowon Egoide Of Alleged Murder Case
A Delta State High Court of Justice sitting at Ughelli Judicial division, presided over by Justice Adolo, has discharged an Ughelli-based PDP politician, Hon. Chief Gowon Egoide, who was accused of allegedly killing Mr. David Otega, on merit for lack of diligent prosecution. The Judge, had in a suit no: UHC/61c/2023, after more than three subsequent adjournments, the prosecution could not produce witnesses to give evidence had no option than to discharge the accused on merit for lack of diligent prosecution. Reacting to the ruling shortly after he was discharged by the…
Read MoreHerdsmen Ambush, Kill Six Police In Delta Community
Six police officers drafted from Force Headquarters, Abuja and Delta State Police command, Asaba have been allegedly ambushed by suspected Fulani herdsmen at Agadama community in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State. Politicsgovernance.com learned that the killed six officers were among 15 others in search of the missing three Mobile police officers, Inspector Felix Onogho, Inspector Hamidu Joel and Inspector Emmanuel Okoroafor, drafted from PMF 51, Oghara to a nipping point at the Ohoror axis of the East-West road in Ughelli North on January 24. Some of…
Read MoreGroup Indicts Ejele, Ajube Of Allege Oil Theft In Delta And Ondo States
The Niger Delta Awareness Council has alerted all security agencies operating in Delta and Ondo States waterways that there shall be escalation of crimes and oil theft in the Niger Delta if urgent steps are not taken to nip it in the bud. The President of the group, Chief Worlu Rowland Chinda in a statement titled, “Heightened Insecurity And Crude Oil Theft Expected In The Niger Delta, As Michael Diden And Bibopere Ajube Of Ondo State Join Forces,” and made available to newsmen , the above names are allegedly planning…
Read MoreOil theft: Nembe Creek Trunkline Hardest Hit By Oil Thieves – TANTITA
TANTITA Security Services Limited has said the Nembe Creek Trunk Line playing host to Shell, AIteo, Eroton was one of the hardest hit trunkline in the dark history of crude oil theft. The Nembe Creek trunkline runs from Brass in Bayelsa through the hostile hash terrains of Rivers State before terminating in Bonny. Dr. Paul Bebenimibo, Tantita Media Consultant disclosed this before the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ (National) in Abuja, Nigeria. Bebenimibo, a Mass Communication lecturer with Delta State University said, “The line was completely rendered useless and…
Read MoreHardship: Nigerian Army Arrests Galaxy Tv Bureau Chief As Protest Is Aborted In Delta
Soldiers from the Nigerian Army 3 Battalion in Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State in the early hours of Friday arrested the South-South Bureau Chief of Galaxy Television, Mr. Dele Fasan, for recording video clips during a planned labour protest in the metropolis. Also, the soldiers whisked a human rights activist, Comrade Israel Joe, to a nearby military barracks, following a mild, rift between him and other activists including Kelvin Ejumudo and others. However, the planned protest could not hold in the Delta metropolis as it was cancelled…
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