The JTF Spokesman, Maj. Ibrahim Abdullahi, said in the statement issued in Yenagoa on Wednesday that Rear Admiral Suleman Apochi, the JTF Commander, some top military officers and troops, fell into the river as the jetty collapsed.
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All the Governors of the States in the region – Akinwunmi Ambode (Lagos), Senator Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun), Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola (Osun), Senator Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo), Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu (Ondo) and Ayodele Fayose (Ekiti) – were present at the meeting conveyed at the instance of the Development Agenda for Western Nigeria Commission.
The Deputy Commander of the JTF, Brigadier General Kevin Aligbe, who confirmed the development in Yenagoa, said a civilian member of the JTF crew aboard the troops’ boat died in the attack.
Rear Admiral Sulieman Apochi, the Commander of the Joint Military Force, code-named Operation Delta Safe, made the announcement on Monday in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the community members protested at Agip’s Obama Flow Station, disrupting production in oil wells 5, 7, 9 and 12
The residents, many of them farmers and community leaders, on Monday staged a peaceful protest at the Governor’s Office in Alausa, Ikeja, demanding the assistance of the state government
This was disclosed in a statement issued on by the Coordinator of the Joint Media Campaign Centre, Operation Delta Safe, Lieutenant Colonel Olaolu Dauda
A competent source close to the Oluyole Warriors disclosed that the player was hit by stray bullet during the Joint Task Force raid of his village, Okaki in Rivers State
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that while the environmental exercise was going on, the JTF vehicle was intercepted by the environmental officials on the road
The JTF has said sequel to the development, it henceforth go on the offensive to fish out militants operating in the creeks of Niger Delta
The trio were said to have been arrested late on Friday, while fishing close to Chevron oil flow station, Okan platform
A statement issued on Saturday in Yenagoa by Dickson’s Chief Press Secretary, Daniel Iworiso-Markson, expressed serious regret over the incident and promised that his administration will partner with the security agencies to arrest the perpetrators of the dastardly act
A source close to operatives of the Joint Task Force in Borno State confirmed the development to The Eagle Online on Saturday
A couple of weeks ago, the military high command had obtained approval of political authorities in Abuja to go all out and clear the region of insurgency before the February general elections
According to the eyewitness, the scene of the blast was a busy area where people gathered to transact business, adding that the explosive might have been planted there overnight, while it went off in the morning as people gathered there
Both soldiers are attached to the 423 Battalion of the Elele Barrack in Rivers State
The statement said the troops flushed out and dislodged the kidnappers who engaged the troops in shootout from their hideouts with bullet wounds
The Islamist militant group — who name means “Western education is sin” in the local Hausa language — has bombed schools, churches and mosques; kidnapped women and children; and assassinated politicians and religious leaders alike
Sources told The Eagle Online that the remnants of the insurgents, flushed out of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, after a failed attempt to free their arrested members from Giwa Barracks, had started regrouping when information reached the Joint Task Force
When the President, in his most recent media chat, spoke about the government’s successes at pushing Boko Haram to the “fringes” of the North East, it immediately occurred to me that some of the credit for that should go to the ‘civilian JTF’ – the band of youth in and around Maiduguri who have taken it upon themselves to act as a vigilante force to fight Boko Haram