The News Agency of Nigeria learnt on Monday that the five victims were kidnapped while on their way to Koluama 1 in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area.
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The women were arraigned over their alleged involvement in an unlawful assembly and the use of diabolic means to block the ongoing construction of the Yenagoa-Oporoma Road that is intended to link Oporoma, headquarters of Southern Ijaw LGA.
This was just as the chamber commended the oil company for providing some monetary compensation to the affected community as consolation for the hardship caused by the spill.
The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that a similar fate befell a team of Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps team on Feb. 4 who lost their weapons during a gun duel with the hoodlums.
The team, which had on January 23 visited communities affected by the oil spill in Koluama in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area, on Friday continued the process of tracing the source of the leakage.
Some yet-to-be-identified gunmen had attacked the community on Sunday for the second time in about a week, shooting sporadically and burning down residential buildings.
The News Agency of Nigeria gathered that the cult member who was on Police wanted list for various crimes including kidnapping, sea robbery, armed robbery and acts of pipeline vandalism was being temporarily detained at the Oproma Division when his gang members struck to free him.
Sources in the community told the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday that the corps member, who hailed from Anambra State, drowned when the canoe he boarded capsized
The incident occurred early on Tuesday morning following an argument between the officers on the sharing formula
Dickson defeated his arch-rival and candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Timipre Sylva, by a margin of about 13,000 votes
The Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress split the two local government areas results announced officially by INEC as at press time
Over 14 people, including four policemen, two soldiers and eight civilians were feared dead in Ekeremor alone
The suspects were said to have forcefully carried the ballot box while polling was ongoing at the unit
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that as early as 7.45am, voters had queued in polling units in some of the wards, waiting for accreditation and voting to begin at 8am as directed by Independent National Electoral Commission
While describing the report as wicked and malicious, Ogbe said the story of the attack on him was a figment of the imagination of the APC, concocted by its governorship candidate, Chief Timipre Sylva, to smear the democratic credentials of Dickson and cause confusion in the winning team
The cancellation was occasioned by the violence that has attended the election the area
The sporadic gunshots led to the death of four persons
The statement said the troops flushed out and dislodged the kidnappers who engaged the troops in shootout from their hideouts with bullet wounds
A statement signed on Friday by Piriye Kiyaramo, the Special Assistant to the Speaker on Media and Public Affairs, said the 86-year-old woman was found at Abua waterside in Rivers State, where she was left by her abductors.