ommodore Abraham Adaji, the Commander of NNS BEECROFT, which carried out the operation, told journalists that the navy was determined to rid the country’s waterways of oil thieves and vandals.
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In a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the repeated attacks on oil and gas pipelines and the willful shutdown of power facilities by protesters amount to economic sabotage which no government will tolerate
In a statement on Wednesday, Donyx Global Concepts Limited said the recent happenings in Igando area of Lagos State and Sagamu in Ogun State have further confirmed its claims that some policemen purporting to be members of the Inspector General of Police Task Force on Anti Pipeline Vandalization are working hand in hands with pipeline vandals
Count one reads: “That you Ugochuku Obi and Markel Daniel on or about the 9th day of October, 2010 at Port Harcourt within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, did conspire with each other to commit felony to wit: Tampering with oil pipeline and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 3 (6) of the Miscellaneous Offences Act CAP M17 of the Revised Edition (Laws of the Federation of Nigeria) Act, 2007 and punishable under Section 1(7) (b) of the same Act
The strike is aimed at also making the government evolve new strategies to combat pipeline vandalisation and crude oil theft that have impacted negatively on the nation’s economy and employment in the country
A woman, Mrs. Bridget Iwelu, has petitioned the Inspector-General of Police Suleiman Abba, against officers and men of the Area C Police Command in Awka, Anambra State for failure to properly investigate the case of abduction of her son, Emeka Kelvin Shoremekun.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the accused persons were on April 29 arraigned on an amended seven-count charge