The Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Michael Onoja, made this known on Wednesday in Abuja, while briefing newsmen on the operations of the military in 2025.
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The Director, Defence Media Operations, Major General Markus Kangye, disclosed this in a statement he issued to newsmen on Saturday in Abuja.
This was contained in a monthly operational update issued on Friday by Commodore Ayiwuyor Adams-Aliu, the Director of Naval Information, in Abuja.
Director of Defence Media Operations, Major General Markus Kangye, who disclosed this said the troops destroyed 18 crude oil cooking ovens, 32 dugout pits, 21 storage tanks, 17 drums, and 16 boats used by oil thieves.
The Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Markus Kangye, made this known while briefing newsmen on the operations of the armed forces on Friday in Abuja.
Lt.-Col. Danjuma Danjuma, spokesman for the Nigerian Army 6 Division in Port Harcourt, announced on Monday that troops had also dismantled the illegal refineries.
The Division’s Assistant Director, Public Relations, Lieutenant Colonel Danjuma Jonah, who disclosed this in a statement in Port Harcourt on Sunday
The Director, Public Relations and Information, NAF, AVM Edward Gabkwet, made this known in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.
Commodore Desmond Igbo, Commander, Nigeria Navy Ship Pathfinder, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, said this.
The Director of Defence Media Operations, Major General Bernard Onyeuko, made this known on Thursday in Abuja.
Reacting to what he described as a “catastrophe and a national disaster,” President Buhari said responsibility for the loss of lives and property must squarely lie with the sponsors of the illegal refinery, “who must all be caught and made to face justice.”
The Acting Director, Defence Media Operations, Brigadier General Bernard Onyeuko, disclosed this on Thursday.
The acting Solicitor-General of the Federation (SGF) and Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Justice, Umar Mohammed, who represented the minister said the move was in a bid to block revenue leakages.
The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, disclosed this while giving an update on the operations of the Armed Forces between November 26 and December 2, 2020 on Thursday in Abuja.
The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, disclosed this while giving update on the operations of the armed forces in the last two weeks at a news conference on Thursday in Abuja.
The Bayelsa State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and Department of Petroleum Resources in Bayelsa State have joined forces against oil thieves and illegal refineries.
The Nigerian Navy says it has destroyed no fewer than 637 illegal refineries in the Niger Delta in 2018, through “Operation River Sweep’’.
The State Commandant of the Corps, Makinde Ayinla, disclosed this on Tuesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Benin.
Speaking with newsmen in Warri, the Commander, NNS DELTA, Commodore Ibrahim Dewu, said the illegal refineries were destroyed in the last 29 days in its ongoing raids.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the refineries were located at Obaszagbon Village in Uhumwode Local Government Area of the state

