Troops of the Nigerian Army, 6 Division, have arrested 38 suspected oil thieves and destroyed 28 illegal refining sites in a series of coordinated operations across the Niger Delta region. The Army also recovered over 700,000 litres of stolen petroleum products and destroyed several locally made boats used by the suspects. This was disclosed in a statement on Sunday by …

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps Commandant General’s Special Intelligence Squad has dismantled an illegal refining site containing over 100,000 litres of stolen crude oil in Adobe settlement, Etche Local Government Area, Rivers State. The Commander of the CG’s SIS, Dandaura Appolos, said the success resulted from credible intelligence indicating that suspects had vandalised a multinational company’s wellhead. He …

The air component of Operation Delta Safe has destroyed seven illegal refining sites at different locations in Rivers State. Equally, a total of four boats loaded with illegally refined products heading southwards were bombed by military aircraft deployed for the operations. The Director of Public Relations and Information for the Nigerian Air Force, Air Vice Marshal Edward Gabkwet, in a …

The Forward Operating Base of the Nigerian Navy Igbokoda, Ondo State has destroyed an illegal refinery in Awoye community, in Ilaje Local Government Area of the state. The military said the development was part of its determination to checkmate criminal activities such as kidnapping, crude oil theft and illegal bunkering within the costal region of the state. The Commander, Forward …

No fewer than 18  persons have been burnt to death by fire that engulfed an illegal oil refinery site at Ibaa, Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State. Twenty-five others at the scene were injured when the inferno broke out Sunday night. An amateur video of the fire showed remains of children, men and women littering the scene. The Commandant of …

Air strikes from the air component of Operation Delta Safe have destroyed no fewer than 30 active illegal oil refining sites in Cawthorne Channel and Bille, in the Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State. Also, storage tanks, reservoirs, and Cotonou boats suspected to be siphoning crude oil from a flow station were destroyed in the operations. In a statement …

Troops of the Nigerian Army, personnel from the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, and private security outfit, Tantita have uncovered an illegal oil refining site in Ughelli south in Delta. In a statement on Sunday, the Director of Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu said the security operatives carried out a sting operation on the site after an …