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
Three units of British oil services firm Vetco International Ltd. pleaded guilty in a US court to bribing Nigerian officials and agreed to pay $26m in criminal fines. The Justice Department said in a statement on Tuesday that the Vetco … read more
PRESIDENT Olusegun Obasanjo has forwarded a bill to the National Assembly seeking to empower security agencies to intercept all Internet communications in the country. The bill also proposes life imprisonment for any person whose operations of the critical information infrastructure … read more
THE United States of America is not planning to establish a military base at the Gulf of Guinea as a way of protecting American oil interest in the area,theAmerican Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. John Campbell, has said. The ambassador also … read more
Three ENI oil company employees held hostage in Nigeria for the past two months are pleading with the Italian government for help. ANSA said the three men, Cosma Russo and Francesco Arena of Italy and Imad Saliba of Lebanon, issued … read more
Gunmen in southern Nigeria have released a British man taken hostage in the oil city of Port Harcourt more than two weeks ago. “He was pretty sick. His health was deteriorating,” a diplomat said Wednesday on condition of anonymity. The … read more
Gunmen released Wednesday a British hostage in Nigeria but a Filipina became the latest kidnap victim in the oil-rich Niger Delta where the taking of foreigners shows no sign of letting up. The woman was abducted at midday from the … read more