Militant group the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) on Friday denied being in talks with Nigeria's government to end attacks on key oil facilities that have cut output and hammered revenue.
President Muhammadu Buhari said on Thursday his administration (...)
Witnesses say two police officers and a bystander have died in the latest protests over renewed demands for a Biafran state to secede from Nigeria's southeast, AP reported.
Police Deputy Superintendent Ali Okechukwu said he has reports that at least (...)
A parliament committee in Nigeria says that Shell should pay $3.6 billion in fines as punishment for a 2011 oil spill, AP reported.
The committee's decision, made Wednesday, is non-binding. The spill occurred in 2011 of the Bonga oil field.
In 2011, (...)
Thousands of people gathered in the Nigerian oil city of Warri Sunday to witness the expected disarmament of militant leader Government Tompolo, behind years of attacks in the western Niger Delta.
Tompolo signed an amnesty agreement with President (...)
Hostage takers released a Polish
worker seized in Nigeria's restive southern oil region, officials and traditional leaders said Monday, according to The Associated Press.
The Polish national, who was seized Thursday in the
southern Niger Delta, (...)
Four gunmen seized a Lebanese construction worker Tuesday in Nigeria's volatile oil-rich south, a top military official said.
Brig. Gen. Lawrence Ngubane said the gunmen snatched the worker from a construction compound in the city of Warri about an (...)
A helicopter carrying several people crashed Friday on the outskirts of the oil-producing hub of Warri in southern Nigeria, killing one person, authorities said, according to AP.
Sam Adurogboye, a spokesman for the Nigerian Civil Aviation (...)
Armed militants launched a wave of
attacks across Nigeria's troubled Niger delta Saturday,
blowing up oil and gas pipelines and seizing nine foreign
oil workers in the latest violence to strike the troubled
region.
In an e-mail to The (...)
A CAR BOMBING IN THE NIGERIAN OIL CITY OF WARRI, CLAIMED BY MILITANTS WHOSE ATTACKS HAVE CUT OIL EXPORTS BY A QUARTER, DESTROYED AT LEAST FIVE TANKER TRUCKS, A REUTERS WITNESS SAID ON SUNDAY.
THE BLAST LATE ON SATURDAY NIGHT IN A TRUCK PARK CLOSE (...)
Nigerian troops killed 12 men caught stealing crude oil from a pipeline in the southern state of Delta, the head of a government task force on pipelines said on Sunday, Reuters reported.
Siphoning oil from pipelines, a practise known locally as (...)
Fires have broken out along a pipeline in remote southern Nigeria, a state oil company official said on Tuesday, a week after unknown gunmen attacked two other pipelines in the volatile Niger Delta, Reuters reported.
The official said he did not (...)
A militant group in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta said it kidnapped two German oil workers and four Nigerians on Wednesday to press for a series of social and economic demands.
Oil services company B&B said six of its staff, two Germans and (...)
Nigerian authorities postponed local government elections in some areas around the ethnically divided oil city of Warri by a day to Friday after voting materials arrived late, officials said on Thursday.
The chairman of the Delta State independent (...)
mainly nausea, which affected one in eight patients.
The earlier study had also shown a drop-out rate due to side effects of about 15 percent.
In all, 39.4 percent of patients on the top dose of Acomplia discontinued treatment, but this rate was (...)
