Oil Exploration Team Met Death

NNPC oil exploration team to Maiduguri were killed by Boko Haram, 50 of them according to report.

Ibe Kachikwu, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, said that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation ‘embarked on the venture despite the risks in order to grow the country’s crude oil reserves’.


Two Professors of Maiduguri University were Adopted in the incident ,while one of three escaped.


After the incident, he  said "Certainly, we will not go back unless the military give us a clearance, just like we didn’t go in before they gave us a clearance.”

The Defence Headquarters confirmed that it was an error indeed due to "lack of appropriate marking.




Acting President Yemi Osibanjo has ordered the Generals who gave clearance to relocate to Maiduguri. He mandated them to effect real clearance of the area.


The carnage that had been going on in that place for a long time did not elicit a presidential directive to relocate. But the generals must redeploy now. Because we need to win the tug of war and get crude flowing from that place as soon as possible.