Five Chinese telecommunications workers and an Italian oil worker abducted in Nigeria’s restive southern delta region have been released, militants and officials said today. A rebel group that has carried out crippling assaults against the energy industry in Africa’s oil … read more
Two oil workers – a Nigerian and a Dutch national – have been killed in an attack in Nigeria’s Delta region, security sources say. Gunmen attacked a vessel operated by the South Korean firm Hyundai, near an oil export complex … read more
The first gas consignment from the Amenam/Kpono oil and gas field operated under a joint venture between Elf Petroleum Nigeria Limited and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) was December 30, 2006, delivered to the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas plant … read more
THERE is now a heavy military presence in Kula in Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State following the violence which erupted in the area over the weekend in which 12 chiefs were killed and others injured. Meanwhile, the oil … read more
Agents of the elite American security agency, the Federal Investigation Bureau, FBI, will escort Vice-President Atiku Abubakar to Nigeria when he returns to the country on Friday. A team of attorneys is also on stand-by in the event the government … read more
The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has appealed to leaders of K-Dere community to allow its technical team to properly secure the wellheads to prevent any danger to lives and property. The SPDC fire team had on January 13, extinguished … read more
A South Korean worker was shot and wounded in an armed robbery in Nigeria’s oil-rich delta region, but the injury was not life-threatening, officials said on Wednesday. The worker from Hyundai Heavy Industries was shot in the thigh when 16 … read more
An armed attack on an oil industry boat in Nigeria’s southern Niger Delta on Tuesday in which a Dutch worker and Nigerian serviceman were killed was a robbery, military and industry sources said on Wednesday. A senior foreign oil industry … read more
Nigerian militants may release Roberto Dieghi, one of three Italian oil workers they took hostage last month, a spokesman for the group holding them told AFP. “Roberto may be released today (Wednesday),” the spokesman of the Movement for the Emancipation … read more
INDICATIONS have emerged that the National Assembly may consider shifting the general election from April to August. Lawmakers who were at the National Assembly on Monday were seen in groups discussing the possibility of the planned postponement. A few of … read more