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Hostages Include At Least One US Citizen

AP)–At least one U.S. citizen is among the two foreign oil workers kidnapped Tuesday in restive southern Nigeria, police said. U.S. Embassy officials weren’t immediately available for comment. One of the main militant groups in the region said it wasn’t … read more

Two foreign workers, 24 Filipinos seized

Reuters) – Two foreign construction workers were kidnapped by gunmen on their way to work in Nigeria’s southern oil city Port Harcourt on Tuesday, police said. Rivers State police commissioner Felix Ogbaudu said the two men were American nationals working … read more

Hostages: Delta SSG Relocates to Warri

Secretary to the Delta State Government (SSG), Chief Ovie Omo-Agege, has relocated to Warri, following the abduction on Saturday night of seven foreign oil workers by some Niger-Delta militants. The decision to relocate to Warri, THISDAY gathered from an authoritative … read more

Atiku gets hero’s welcome

IT might not have been exactly intended so. But that was what the return of Vice President Atiku Abubakar from a month-long vacation in the United States of America ended up achieving for him: a popularity test. Were a grade … read more

MEND threatens to kill hostages

A group claiming to be MOVEMENT for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), which hijacked a cargo ship, weekend, in Warri and took 24 Phillipines hostage, reiterated, yesterday, that the kidnapped foreign nationals would be killed tomorrow if at … read more

From MEND

We wish to deny reports of our involvement in the kidnap of filipino seamen off a cargo ship in escravos, delta state, on saturday january 20, 2007. These misleading reports were carried in the vanguard edition of sunday January 21, … read more

Navy Starts Sea Exercises Today

AGAINST the backdrop of rising insecurity in the delta and its resolve to fulfil part of its responsibility in the security of the Gulf of Guinea, the Nigerian Navy will today start a series of naval exercises in the Bight … read more