YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Hundreds of Nigerian militants Saturday surrendered their weapons, mortar bombs and gunboats, as part of a federal amnesty program that aims to stem unrest in the oil-producing Niger Delta. The handover by dozens of ...
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - A rebel commander in Nigeria's oil heartland on Monday accused the military of attacking one of his fellow militants with gunboats, underlining the fragility of an amnesty offer from President Umaru Yar'Adua. Ateke ...
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian security forces said Saturday they rescued 10 hostages kidnapped this week, including six foreigners, and destroyed a key militant camp in the heart of Africa's biggest oil industry region. Nigeria's main ...
PORT HARCOURT (Reuters) - Nigeria's main militant group warned oil companies in the Niger Delta to evacuate their staff within 24 hours following heavy clashes with the security forces in southern Delta state on Wednesday. The Movement for the ...
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria - Nigeria's main militant group warned of a "sweeping assault" on the country's oil and gas industry on Friday, saying it was calling off a ceasefire after a military strike on one of its camps. The Movement for the Emancipation ...
A powerful militia leader from Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta has accused the government of talking peace while provoking rebel commanders with army raids. Ateke Tom's armed group is one of several in the anarchic delta that have fought with troops ...
A protest outside an oil company compound, a high-profile kidnapping and a troop incursion into a militant stronghold on Monday were all signs of the renewed tension in Nigeria's oil delta. Violence had subsided for a few months in the impoverished ...
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunmen disguised as soldiers killed a Colombian oil worker and abducted two other foreigners in Nigeria on Thursday in a raid on the construction yard of oil services company Saipem, authorities said. The raid follows ...
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria Nigerian troops found the corpse of a man believed to be a foreign hostage floating in a creek on Saturday near a village where five people died in fighting this week, a military spokesman said. Kidnapping of foreign workers has ...
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian kidnappers have demanded 10 million naira ($78,600) for a 3-year-old boy they snatched on his way to school in the lawless Niger Delta, relatives of the toddler said on Friday. The boy's abduction on ...
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