Breaking Happening In Gbaramatu As Angry Niger Delta Militants Youths Set To Burst More Pipeline

Militants in Nigeria’s southern Niger Delta oil hub attacked a pipeline operated by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the state oil company said on Wednesday, a day after regional leaders put a series of demands to the president.

Community leaders from the Niger Delta, which is the source of most of the OPEC member’s oil, met President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday and asked him to pull the army out of the oil hub, order oil firms to move headquarters there and spend more on development to end militancy in the region.

It was the first time that Buhari had met leaders from the since militants started a wave of attacks on oil pipelines in January to push for the impovshed region to receive a greater share of oil revenues.

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