Nigerian Army Vows to Secure Oil Rich Region

Nigeria’s military is pressing ahead with its offensive against rebels in a bid to re-establish order in the country’s oil-rich Niger Delta. A military spokesman says soldiers are combing the creeks of the delta to flush out militants and wipe out militancy in the region.

The army says it will continue to fight criminal gangs in the Niger Delta until militants, whose criminal activities have hurt the country’s oil production, are neutralized. Colonel Rabe Abubakar speaks for the special military force in the Niger Delta.

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