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A Nigerian policeman Nigeria’s Inspector general of Police, Solomon Arase has explained why scores of armed policemen occupied the Abuja headquarters of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party. In a statement released by Force PRO, Kolawole Olabisi, the police said their action was meant to thwart the plan by a faction of the PDP to cause mayhem in the capital, by orchestrating street demonstrations, using political thugs and also attacking the Wadata House headquarters of the party. The PDP held two parallel conventions on Saturday, one in Abuja and the other in Port Harcourt. The Port Harcourt convention sacked all the party’s executive and national working committee members and the chairman, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff. In their place, it appointed a caretaker committee to steer its affairs until the party’s next convention. The convention held despite the announcement by the sacked chairman,that it should be postponed in view of the several court orders restraining it from elect

FILE PHOTO: A pipeline destroyed by Niger Delta militants now known as ‘Avengers’ By Reuben Abati Niger Delta Avengers is the name of a new group of militants in the Niger Delta who claim to be different from the former agitators and militants who operated between 2006 and 2009, largely under the umbrella of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND). The title of this group may well serve as the thematic and definitive umbrella for the resurgence of low-level insurgency in the Niger Delta, for in the last month alone, more groups have joined the NDA to wage war against oil installations, the Buhari government, and the Nigerian state. These include the Isoko Liberation Movement and the Red Egbesu Water Lions. The groups are working in concert with the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) led by detained Nnamdi Kanu. The NDA runs a website (created in February 2016) where it posts news items and statements; and in terms of rhetoric, and activities, there is no doubt