A bodyguard has been killed and a oil worker kiddnapped in the Port Harcourt in Nigeria's Niger Delta region. He is the third British person in the area to be taken, the other two are Robin Hughes and Matthew Maguire...
Two long weeks after he was abducted from the Niger Delta, Ben Strachan - a Scottish oil worker - was freed and reunited with his Nigerian wife and their son. Strachan - who is employed by one of the many oil...
Gunmen seize vessel, 11 oil workersA gang of armed men has hijacked a Chevron Nigeria Limited vessel, Lourdes Tide, with 11 crew members including a Portuguese and Ukrainian aboard.It was gathered on Wednesday...
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Pregnancy: Preeclampsia and EclampsiaHIGH blood pressure or hypertension as widely known, is a deadly condition, which cannot be overlooked or said to have been overstressed.As critical as hypertension is, its...
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Militants’ Attack: FG Moves Troops To BonnyFollowing recent incessant attacks on oil facilities and armed operations by pirates around the Bonny axis of Rivers state, the Federal government has...
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The wife of the MD/CEO of lonestar Drilling Company in Port Harcourt Nigeria Chief Humphrey Idisi was taken by un-known armed group of people, who came to the house of the MD, which is situated within the...
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"PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria - At least 30 people were killed and shops and vehicles destroyed Saturday when a fuel tanker exploded in Port Harcourt, the hub of Nigeria's multi-billion-dollar oil industry and a target of attacks by militants.
"The incident happened at Eleme...
"At least 30 people have died after an oil tanker exploded on a road in Nigeria, according to reports.
The incident, on the outskirts of regional capital Port Harcourt on the west African state's southern...
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"MILITANTS in the Niger Delta have announced cease-fire on December 25. In an online statement to Sunday Vanguard signed by Jomo Gbomo, the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) said it was done in the spirit of Christmas.
* Rivers govt imposes curfew on...
A local chief's toddler has been abducted by gunmen in Nigeria's southwestern delta region."The son of Iriebe Chief Eze Francis Amadi was taken by gunmen as he was being driven to school, they say.
The kidnapping...
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"Kidnappers in southern Nigeria have released a three-year-old British girl who was held hostage for three days.
Margaret Hill was in good health and being cared for by officials in Port Harcourt city, a government spokeswoman told the Reuters news agency.
The child was...
"A three-year-old girl has been abducted in the Nigerian oil city of Port Harcourt.
The child, who is thought to be the daughter of a British businessman, was snatched from a car while she was being driven to...
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The fallout from Nigeria's election continues, as unknown militants destroy the Vice-President-Elect's house along with a police station. "Militants have attacked the country residence of the Vice-President-elect...
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"PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (AP) - Gunmen seized the mother of a newly elected state governor in oil-rich southern Nigeria, police said Tuesday.
The navy, meanwhile, reported an attack off southern Bayelsa state by gunmen armed with dynamite and assault rifles on a vessel...
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UPDATE:The stakes are high: this election could see Nigeria's first fully democratic transition of power."
Police inspector general Sunday Ehindero told state television that
a preliminary tally showed 21 dead,...
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