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Gunmen kidnap 9 Koreans

Militants armed with guns and dynamite invaded an oil services base in Bayelsa state in Nigeria’s southern oil-producing Niger Delta on Wednesday and kidnapped nine South Korean workers and one Nigerian. The gunmen came in six boats to the riverside … read more

FG Loses N570bn to N/Delta Crisis

The Federal Government said yesterday that in 2006, the nation lost an estimated N570 billion in revenue due to protracted crisis in the Niger Delta region, which also affected the federal budget by N216 billion. Making this disclosure in Abuja … read more

Army chief visits P’Harcourt

The Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Awoye Aziza, flew into Port Harcourt on Monday afternoon to join his lieutenants in finding ways of securing the release of five Chinese who were taken hostage by militants in Port Harcourt last Friday. … read more

Oil workers threaten to go on strike

Oil workers have resolved to continue their suspended strike should government fail to urgently convene a stakeholders� summit to address security issues in the Niger Delta. President of National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), Comrade Peter Akpatason … read more

Militants kidnap naval men

TWO naval personnel and an unspecified number of State Secret Service (SSS) operatives were reported kidnapped yesterday during a clash between suspected militants and men of the Joint Task Force (JTF) off an oil platform in Soku, Akuku-Toru Local Government … read more

Foreigners now walk in groups

As the security situation in the Niger Delta degenerates, foreigners in the region now go in groups to avoid being kidnapped by the daring militants. Findings by our correspondent in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, at the weekend, showed … read more

Task force recovers – Ughelli

Tension mounted in Delta State on Sunday as the remains of two of the five soldiers and an employee of Shell Petroleum Development Company, murdered on Friday by irate youths in Ughelli, headquarters of Ughelli North Local Government Area of … read more

Kidnappers demand ransom for five

Kidnappers who are holding five Chinese telecom workers in Nigeria’s southern oil-producing Niger Delta have asked for a ransom, the chairperson of the local government area where the abduction took place said on Monday. Gunmen broke into the rented apartment … read more