[2] The attacks caused Nigeria to fall behind Angola as Africa's largest oil producer.

The group criticised the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, for having never visited the delta and his detention of the Biafran independence activist Nnamdi Kanu.

[7] Additionally, many Niger Delta militant groups have sprung up in the wake of the NDA’s 2016 actions.

These copycat organization have contested claims to various act against numerous oil companies originally attributed to the NDA.

[8] The most prominent of these splinter groups has been the Reformed Niger Delta Avengers (RNDA), whose similarity of name has caused confusion both inside and outside the country but is not affiliated with the NDA.