Tompolo’s Oil Surveillance Coy Kicks As EFCC Detains Head of Operations
LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-The operatives of the Tantita Security outfit belonging to the former Commander of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, More...
MEND Joins ‘Wailing Wailers’, Passes Vote of No Confidence on Buhari
Buhari LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta [MEND] has joined the popular ‘wailing wailers’ and has currently passed a vote of no confidence on President Muhammadu More...
Niger Delta Crisis: Ibe Kachikwu meets Clark, Other Stakeholders in Warri
Ibe Kachikwu LAGOS AUGST 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday dispatched the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr Ibe Kachikwu to Warri,Delta State to meet with Niger Delta Stakeholders on how More...
Nnamdi Kanu Dismisses Report Linking Him With MEND, N’Delta Avengers
Nnamdi Kanu LAGOS AUGUST 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has dismissed reports linking him with rampaging Niger Delta Avengers and the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, More...
MEND Replies Jonathan, Accuses Him of Spending Six Years ‘Drinking and Chasing Shadows’
Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, Came down hard on former President Goodluck Jonathan, accusing him of woefully failing to address the More...
MEND Still Plotting to Assassinate Me, Jonathan Cries Out
Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS AUGUST 8TH (URHOTODAY)-Former President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) is still plotting to assassinate him, just as he denied More...
Aug 1st Deadline: Militants Advise Jonathan, Clark, Spiff, S/East, S/South Indigenes to Return Home
LAGOS JULY 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Adaka Boro Avengers (ABA) and other militant groups have asked indigenes of South-East and South-South all over Nigeria to immediately come back home. Specifically, they called More...
MEND Writes Buhari, Names Diette-Spiff, Odein Ajumogobia, Tomplolo, Others in Dialogue Team
Ajumogobia LAGOS JULY 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) on Sunday wrote President Muhammadu Buhari, submitting the final list of its dialogue group, Aaron Team 2. In More...
JUST IN: MEND Leader, Charles Okah Escapes From Prison
MEND Leader,Charles Orkar LAGOS JUNE 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A brother of Henry Okah, jailed leader of the Movement For The Emancipation of Niger Delta Charles Okah has escaped from Kuje Prison in Abuja. A prison source More...
Tompolo’s Case Postponed as Ex-Militant Avoids Arrest
By Conor Gaffey March 24th (urhobotoday0-A militant of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) poses with a heavy machine-gun in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, September 17, 2008. A former MEND More...
MEND Leader, Okah Attacks Jonathan, Edwin Clark, Asari Dokubo from Prison
Okah LAGOS MARCH 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigerian-militant-leader-Henry-Okah Leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Henry Okah, is hitting hard at President Goodluck Jonathan from his prison More...
N’Delta Ex-Militants Re-Group, Threaten War If Jonathan Looses
Niger Delta Ex-Militants LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A group of ex-militants in the Niger Delta, led by Government Ekpemopulo (aka Tompolo), on Friday met in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, and threatened More...
2015; MEND Backs Buhari, Says Jonathan Do Not Deserve Second Term
LAGOS JANUARY 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The presidential candidate of the All Progressives’ Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), on Tuesday gained an unusual support as the main agitating militant group in the More...
E.K.Clark’s Son: Delta Govt Denies Payment of Ransom to Kidnappers, Blast Faceless MEND
By Oghenekevwe Laba LAGOS APRIL 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The government of Delta State has denied allegation made by a faceless group called called MEND that it paid N500m as ransom for the release of Chief Ebikeme Clark, More...
$200,000 Paid for Release of Sister of Jonathan’s Aide-MEND
Augusta-Douglas-Ayam_0_0 LAGOS OCTOBER 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) today said it could authoritatively confirm that the sum of 200,000 US Dollars was paid as ransom More...
Focus on Corruption, Not National Conference, MEND Tells Jonathan
LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has dismissed President Goodluck Jonathan’s inauguration of an Advisory Committee on the proposed National Dialogue, More...
PDP Crisis: MEND backs Atiku’s Faction, Describe Ex-Militant Thereat as Empty Threat
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, has told former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Rivers State Governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi and More...
MEND Threatens Attack on Chevron Facilities on Indepence Day, Orders Workers out of Company’s Site
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (URHOBOTODAY) – The outlawed Niger Delta militant group, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), on Wednesday, threatened to launch an attack on the facility of American More...
Islamic Group Wants FG to Ban MEND, MASSOB,Egbesu, Others
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (URHOBOTODAY) A non-governmental organisation, Muslim Media Watch Group (MMWG), has called on the Federal Government to ban all ethnic militant groups in the country. The coordinator of the group, More...
MEND Demands Release of All Detained Niger Delta Militants, Tells Orubebe to Forget Guber Bid
Following President Goodluck Jonathan’s directive to the military to release women, children, relatives of fleeing wanted Boko Haram members and indeed some categories of Boko Haram detainees as part of the federal More...