The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has discredited the Cable News Network (CNN) report currently being aired where purported members were shown. Spokesman of the militant group, Jomo Gbomo, while disputing the report threatened to release … read more
President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday in Abuja said he has refrained from using military option to deal with the high spate of hostage taking and vandalisation in the Niger Delta because he has very high regard for the sanctity of human … read more
Nigeria’s federal government accused three state governors from the ruling party of corruption on Thursday as a politically sensitive anti-graft campaign widened ahead of elections in April. In papers filed with a code of conduct tribunal, the federal government accused … read more
The fate of the Filipina taken hostage by gunmen on Tuesday in southern Nigeria is still not clear, the Nigerian police and Filipino diplomats said. “Her whereabouts are unknown”, Felix Ogbaudu, Rivers State police commissionner, told AFP Friday, as some … read more
In the remote mangrove swamps of southern Nigeria, 24 Filipino hostages appeared frightened and disheveled. Around them, dozens of militants, dressed in black and wearing black ski masks, danced wildly and fired their automatic weapons into the air. The hostages, … read more
Minister of State for Defence, Mr. Mike Onolememen has refuted allegations by Vice President Atiku Abubakar that the Federal Government purchased military hardware worth N2 billion for the purpose of suppressing militants in the troubled oil-rich Niger Delta region. The … read more
Frenchman became the latest kidnap victim in the oil-rich Niger Delta when he was seized in Port Harcourt, Nigeria’s oil capital, an industry source has said. The unidentified man, married to a Nigerian woman and under local contract to French … read more
Oil and gas services contractor Willbros Group Inc. on Wednesday said it has sold its Nigerian operations for $155.3 million to Ascot Offshore Nigeria Ltd., an energy services company based in the west African nation Willbros said it has received … read more
Gunmen kidnapped a Filipina woman in Port Harcourt in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta and a Frenchman was seized in the same city in a separate incident. Following is a chronology of some recent attacks and kidnappings on the Nigerian oil … read more
Foreign contractors working in Nigeria’s oil-rich delta region face a soaring threat of kidnapping as the country heads towards elections. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend), an armed group which began a wave of abductions last … read more