Attempt by officials of the Rivers State Ministry of Lands and Urban Development to demolish illegal structures at the Army Day Primary School at Tombia Street in the Government Reservation Area of Port Harcourt suffered a serious setback on Wednesday … read more
Niger Delta insurgents on Wednesday freed six of the nine foreign oil workers they abducted on February 18, but warned of more misery on the horizon if their demands are not met. They did as Abuja confirmed the loss of … read more
The BBC’s Alex Last describes his surprise when he and other journalists went out into the mangrove swamps to meet Nigerian militants holding nine foreign oil-workers hostage and they handed one of them over to the journalists. The militants appeared … read more
Apparently dreading a possible all-out battle between militants, holding nine expatriate oil workers as hostages, and men of the Nigerian Army, hundreds of people from the Gbaramatu Kingdom in Warri have started moving out of the community. This comes as … read more
Ijaw militants on Tuesday continued their onslaught on oil facilities in the Niger Delta by attacking the Chanomi Creek manifold and a tanker ship in Delta State. The attacks, which came barely three days after the militants damaged the Odidi … read more
An explosion in Chanoni creek in Gbaramatu Kingdom in the Niger Delta damaged an oil pipeline Wednesday leading to the spilling of a yet to be specified volume of oil. Jane Oraka, a resident of Gbaramatu, said locals believed that … read more
News networks are saying that 1 American hostage has been released today. Macon Hawkins, who celebrates his 69th bithday today is said to have been set free in a gesture of good will by MEND… More as we get it read more
Militants holding foreign oil workers hostage in Nigeria released one in the presence of reporters on Wednesday, handing over a diabetic 69-year-old American after nearly two weeks in captivity. Macon Hawkins, of Kosciusko, Texas, was handed over to the Nigerian … read more
Nigerian separatist guerrillas released six of their nine foreign hostages on today but warned that they would step up attacks aimed at shutting down the country’s oil industry. The militants also stated they would not hand over the remaining captives … read more
SIX of the nine foreign oil workers seized on February 18 by Niger Delta militants were released last night by their abductors. First to breathe the air of freedom was Macon Hawkins, an American, who arrived the Miller Waterside Jetty … read more