Niger Delta Avengers

Niger Delta Avengers
Participant in Conflict in the Niger Delta
Active	January 2016 – present
Ideology	Regionalism
Headquarters	Delta State (allegedly)
Area of operations	Niger Delta
Allies	Red Egbesu Water Lions Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force Niger Delta Red Square Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate
Opponents	Nigeria
Battles and wars	Conflict in the Niger Delta
Website	[1]

The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) is a militant group in Nigeria's Niger Delta. The group publicly announced their existence in March 2016.

The NDA have attacked oil producing facilities in the delta, causing the shutdown of oil terminals and a fall in Nigeria's oil production to its lowest level in twenty years. The attacks caused Nigeria to fall behind Angola as Africa's largest oil producer. The reduced oil output has hampered the Nigerian economy and destroyed its budget, since Nigeria depends on the oil industry for nearly all its government revenues.

The NDA's declared aims are to create a sovereign state in the Niger Delta and have threatened to disrupt Nigeria's economy if their aims are not met. The NDA claims its members are "young, educated, well travelled...and educated in east Europe". The group have criticised the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, for having never visited the delta and his detention of the Biafran independence activist Nnamdi Kanu.

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