Perhaps, to do justice to the above subject matter, there is need to first look at the term freedom fighters and what makes one a freedom fighter. From that, we can now compare it with what we have been witnessing more recently in the Niger Delta struggle to see if those behind the militancy activities in the region can be regarded as freedom fighters that they claim. A freedom fighter according to Wikipedia and some dictionary definitions, refers to a person who thinks his native ethnic group is not free, and is working to have/obtain that freedom for his group. Most often this means that a freedom fighter wants his people to have their own nation and independence and/or to get rid of oppressors. It also refers to a person who is part of an organized group fighting against a cruel and unfair government or system. It is in this light that we have world-recognized freedom fighters like Nelson Mandela of South-Africa who fought racism, discrimination, inequality, Apartheid and oppression of Blacks by a minority white government in the then South Africa to the extent that he spent 27 years in prison; Desmund Tutu of South Africa who is a social rights activists and retired Anglican Archbishop who always fought and spoke for all oppressed peoples’ struggles for equality and freedom; the recently late Shimon Perez of Israel who was regarded as one of the greatest souls that ever bestrode the earth and a champion and founding father of the Jewish State of Israel; Martin Luther