A previously unknown group in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta has demanded a 50 million naira ($390,000) ransom for a Lebanese hostage seized on Aug. 16, a local radio reported on Saturday. The kidnapping of the Lebanese construction worker was one … read more
The company spoke recently at a workshop organised in Abuja by the house of representatives committee on navy, to review the security situation in the region as it affected oil exploration and operations of oil firms. Its observation came on … read more
Three employees of the Italian ENI oil company’s Saipem subsidiary have been abducted in the Nigerian city of Port Harcourt, the Italian ANSA news agency reported on Thursday. The three men, including an Italian, were traveling near their company on … read more
The six foreign oil workers set free by their captors in the restive Niger-Delta yesterday left Nigeria for their respective home countries. A Rivers State government aircraft, Embraer-100 flew the expatriates from Port Harcourt, to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, … read more
Nigerian soldiers burned hundreds of slum houses located close to the compound of an Italian oil company where at least one Italian worker was kidnapped and his bodyguard killed overnight. Residents said the soldiers stormed the waterside settlement around the … read more
Six foreign oil workers, kidnapped from a nightclub in Nigeria, were released on Wednesday night after 10 days in captivity, authorities said. The six men — two Britons, an American, German, Irish and Pole — were abducted at gunpoint from … read more
Nigeria’s military Wednesday signalled it would beef up its presence in the treacherously violent oil-producing Niger Delta, and was determined to show it superiority over the militant groups that have been kidnapping oil workers and attacking its troops. The Chief … read more
Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, and the Advanced Congress of Democrats (ACD) have deplored the killings and warned against the Nigerian government resorting to force in dealing with youth restiveness in the region. The shoot-out ensued when soldiers of the … read more
Six foreigners kidnapped in a nightclub raid in Nigeria’s southern oil region were released after the government paid a ransom, said an official on Thursday. The West African nation’s oil-rich delta had seen a spate of hostage-takings in recent weeks. … read more
Nigeria is releasing 10 000 inmates who have spent up to a decade in jail awaiting trial, in a first step towards cleaning up one of the worst blemishes on its human rights record, said the justice minister on Thursday. … read more