Two senior employees of the oil company Shell have been kidnapped and their police escorts killed in Nigeria’s restive Delta region, police said. The attack took place as the workers were returning from a business trip on Thursday on a … read more
The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) says six sailors have been abducted by Pirates off Nigeria’s oil-rich south. According to the IMB Piracy Reporting Centre, the sailors were aboard a small oil tanker, before they were attacked. The Apecus, a Palau-flagged … read more
Two Chinese nationals working on a road project in southeast Nigeria have been kidnapped by an armed gang. Employees of the Tongyi group of companies, Sun Zhixin and Wang Quing Hu were working in Ebonyi State when they were apprehended … read more
Nigerian authorities have arrested nine private maritime security contractors (PMSCs) during a multinational anti-piracy sweep in the Gulf of Guinea. The Nigerian Navy detained the civilian anti-piracy personnel on suspicion of illegal firearms possession. Four semiautomatic rifles were found on … read more
Four Nigerian emergency agency workers were kidnapped on Wednesday as they returned from an assignment in oil-rich Rivers State in southern Nigeria, security sources said. Three men and a woman from the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) were snatched, the … read more
The age-long debate over fuel subsidy removal in Nigeria has started reverberating. Once more, there has been divergent views on this policy which appears to be a thorn in the flesh of successive governments in the country. While those that … read more
Up to 216 human trafficking victims have been rescued from forced labour and prostitution in a major operation in Benin and Nigeria, Interpol said on Wednesday. Operation Epervier II involved 100 police officers across the two countries who rescued 157 … read more
The operator of the Nembe Creek Trunk Line—one of the two key pipelines of Nigeria’s Bonny Light crude grade capable of transporting 150,000 bpd to the export terminal—declared on Sunday force majeure, due to a fire suspected to have been … read more
Ten people were killed and more than 30 injured when a policeman rammed his car into a group of children during an Easter procession in northeast Nigeria, before being killed himself by the angry crowd, witnesses and police sources told … read more
Since the dawn of Nigeria’s oil boom era in the 1970s, the people of the Niger Delta region have had to face its devastating consequences. With more than 12,000 oil spills in the last 50 years, the region’s formerly pristine … read more