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How crude oil theft ignited the current Ijaw/Urhobo crisis?

November 23, 2016November 23, 2016 Amurun KelvinLeave a Comment

Deltans, indeed all Nigerians, should be worried, nay alarmed. The general perception is that the prevailing tension across Udu Local Government Area of Delta State is fast approaching the climax of an ethnic war involving the Urhobo and Ijaw. This has been brewing since November 17 when native youths gave Ijaws resident in the locality […]

Militants yesterday blow up another NNPC facility

August 20, 2016 Amurun KelvinLeave a Comment

Suspected militants in the early hours of Friday(19/8/16) blew up another gas pipeline being operated by the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) at Owhrode and Orhuwhorun in Udu Local Government Area of Delta State. The bursted pipeline supplies gas to the defunct Delta Steel Company (DSC) at Aladja in Orhuwhorun community in Udu Local Government […]