N/Delta Avengers' Website Shut, Returns with Shocker

The website of the Niger Delta Avengers was shut down albeit momentarily yesterday, by unknown hackers, raising suspicions that agents of the federal government may be involved

But just hours after media reports had showed that the website of the Niger Delta Avengers, www.nigerdeltavengers.com had become inaccessible to the public, the militant group have launched a new website, www.nigerdeltaavengers.org.

The Niger Delta Avengers did not make any statement on the new development and it still remains unclear who or what was responsible for the former website being taken down.

The avengers is at the fore front of a recent bid to establish a Sovereign nation of the Niger Delta and it has promised to cripple Nigeria’s oil producing capacity to zero level till it wards off all resistance.

The group has been on a crazy spree over the last few days, bombing two Chevron oil wells-RMP 23 and RMP 24 because the company embarked on repairs of installations it had bombed earlier and then a Shell oil facility on June 3rd to round up an unprecedented attack of key oil installations in a matter of days that had affected almost everyone from NNPC to Agip.

Two oil firms operating in Nigeria say they lose 140,000 barrels of crude daily due to recent attacks on their facilities by militants.

The attacks by a militant group, believed to be the Niger Delta Avengers, caused the loss, according to Eni and Aiteo from their oilfields in Bayelsa.

At about $48 per barrel, an estimated $6.72 million (N1.3 billion) daily is lost by the two operators due to the attacks.