Army recovers over N250m worth stolen oil products in Niger Delta crackdown

Troops of the 6 Division, Nigerian Army, moving alongside different information agencies, person stepped up operations against crude lipid theft crossed the Niger Delta, arresting 9 suspects and shutting down respective amerciable refining sites during operations conducted betwixt 1 and 26 April 2026.

The operations besides led to the betterment of much than 130,000 litres of stolen crude lipid and implicit 26,000 litres of Automotive Gas Oil (AGO), alongside the demolition of instrumentality utilized for amerciable refining.

The Nigerian Army valued the recovered products astatine implicit N250 million.

In Rivers State, a bid of intelligence-driven operations accounted for immoderate of the large recoveries.

This was disclosed successful a connection connected Sunday by the Acting Deputy Director, 6 Division Army Public Relations, Lieutenant Colonel Danjuma Jonah Danjuma.

He stated that t...