Nigeria: Oil Thieves Blow Up Shell Pipeline

SUSPECTED gangsters, reportedly working for some oil bunkers, whose barges containing stolen crude oil were seized by the Joint Task Force on the Niger-Delta in the past two months in Delta State, yesterday, blew up the Escravos crude oil pipeline, between an Ijaw community of Yokri in Ogulagha kingdom and Ogidigben, an Itsekiri riverside community in Warri South-West local government area of the state.