Niger Delta Avengers bomb another Agip crude oil pipeline

Scene of a Pipeline bombed by militants

Niger Delta Avengers, the new militant group blowing up oil facilities in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria announced on Friday morning that it has destroyed a major crude oil line operated by Agip in Bayelsa State.

The militant group said the oil facility located in Bayelsa State was destroyed around 3 am on Friday morning on its twitter handle. “3am Friday @NDAvengers blow up the Obi Brass Trunk Line belonging to Agip ENI. It’s Agip’s Major Crude Oil Line in Bayelsa State,” the group said on its twitter handle.

The group had claimed responsibility for all the attacks on the oil installations which has reduced Nigeria’s oil production by about 50 per cent in the past weeks.

There has been no independent confirmation of the attack.

It will be recalled that the group had yesterday announced that it is not interested in being part of the ongoing efforts by Federal Government to end the renewed insurgency in the Niger Delta region.

Instead it asked for support of the international community to facilitate the control of the oil resources by the people of the region and independence of the Niger Delta region from the Nigerian state