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
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
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
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
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
Filipinos taken hostage this weekend in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria were seized by members of a local community, a prominent separatist group in the region said. “They were taken by a community in that vicinity. The … read more
Philippine President Gloria Arroyo has ordered workers not to travel to Nigeria following the kidnapping of six Filipinos there at the weekend. “The president has ordered a temporary halt to deployments to Nigeria until the security of our nationals is … read more
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
The Philippine Overseas Employment Administrator is having a hard time identifying the six Filipino seamen snatched on Saturday from a cargo ship in Nigeria�s Upper Niger Delta. �We have no clear identity yet even of the ships because what was … read more
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