LAGOS: The Nigerian secret police on Saturday announced the arrest of a militant who they say confessed to carrying out recent attacks on oil pipelines in the energy-rich south.

The Department of State Service (DSS) said it arrested a man named Jones Abiri who uses the alias General Akotebe Darikoro.

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