Militants launched a fresh round of attacks on oil pipelines in Nigeria's southern Niger Delta energy hub belonging to Italy's Eni and Aiteo, Nigerian security forces, Eni and a militant group said.
The attacks are the latest in a spate targeting (...)
Chevron's onshore activities in Nigeria's Niger Delta have been shut down by a militant attack on an electricity power line leading to its Escravos terminal, a company source said on Thursday.
"It is a crude line which means all activities in (...)
Nigerians voted amid tight security in a governorship election on Saturday in the state of Bayelsa.
Nigeria's 36 state governors are some of the most powerful politicians in Africa's most populous nation, according to a report of Reuters.
"Ten (...)
Hundreds of Nigerian militants today surrendered their weapons, mortar bombs and gun boats, as part of a federal amnesty programme that aims to stem unrest in the oil-rich Niger Delta, Reuters reported.
The handover by three militant gangs was the (...)
Militant youths occupied a Royal
Dutch Shell PLC oil installation in restive southern
Nigeria on Friday, shutting down its production of 5,000
barrels a day, the company said, according to AP.
James Jephtah, chairman of the Bayelsa State (...)
A foreign hostage in Nigeria died
of an illness Sunday while being taken to a hospital for
treatment, community leaders said, according to AP.
The man, whose nationality wasn't known, succumbed after
he had been released to state officials by (...)
TWIN EXPLOSIONS HIT OIL
INSTALLATIONS BELONGING TO ITALIAN OIL COMPANY AGIP IN
NIGERIA'S VOLATILE SOUTHEASTERN DELTA REGION, OFFICIALS
SAID THURSDAY, ACCORDING TO AP.
OFFICIALS SUSPECTED SABOTAGE IN THE EXPLOSIONS WEDNESDAY
ALONG TWO PIPELINES (...)
Nine South Korean oil workers
abducted from an oil services base in Nigeria's southern delta
were freed unharmed on Friday after three days in captivity, a
government spokesman said, Reuters reported.
On Wednesday, gunmen in six boats invaded (...)
Kidnappers in Nigeria on Tuesday released an American and a Briton seized by gunmen in speedboats last week from a vessel off this country's oil-rich southern coast, a government official said.
The two men taken hostage Thursday were freed (...)
Kidnappers on Tuesday released an
American and a Briton seized by gunmen last week from a ship off Nigeria's oil-rich southern coast, government and company officials said, according to The Associated Press.
The two men taken hostage Thursday were (...)
Protesters angry over a lack of jobs and aid took over an oil pumping station in Nigeria's southern delta region run by Italian oil firm Agip, forcing the company to shut the flow of oil there, a Nigerian security official said Sunday.
Scores of (...)
Around 20 armed men stormed the headquarters of a South Korean oil services company in Nigeria's lawless delta and stole more than $300,000, police said on Sunday, in the latest attack on foreign firms.
The group arrived by speed boat and forced (...)
