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Security forces free 27 kidnapped oil workers in raid

August 27, 2012 no comments

Security forces reportedly freed 27 kidnapped oil workers during a raid on a militant group hideout in the oil rich Niger Delta. According to reports the 27 were kidnapped last week Thursday in Ikang...

Shell pays Nigeria security forces millions of dollars for protection

August 20, 2012 no comments

Nigeria’s security forces are reportedly getting paid tens of millions of dollars a year to provide protection for installations and staff of the Royal Dutch Shell in the Niger Delta, the Guard...

Nigerian navy intensifies search for 4 foreigners kidnapped in pirate ...

August 5, 2012 no comments

The Nigerian navy has confirmed that it is intensifying its search for four foreigners kidnapped during a pirate attack on an oil vessel belonging to the Sea Trucks Group off the Gulf of Guinea on Sa...

Casualties of Rivers fuel tanker fire given mass burial

July 12, 2012 no comments

NAN – Casualties of Thursday’s tanker fire in Okogbe village on the East-West Road in Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers State have been given a mass burial at the scene of the inciden...

95 killed, 50 injured as fuel tanker explodes in Niger Delta

July 12, 2012 no comments

At least 95 people were killed and 50 injured when a truck carrying fuel exploded on Thursday in the oil-rich Niger Delta, an official said. Rivers State spokeswoman Ibim Semenitari told the Associat...

JTF arrests suspected oil pipeline bomber

June 30, 2012 no comments

NAN – The Military Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta has arrested an ex-militant commander, Mr Seiyefa Gbereke, for sabotage on petroleum pipelines. Gbereke, alias “Gen. Cairo’’, who is...

Nigerian police say Christian Obodo freed and unharmed

June 10, 2012 no comments

Nigerian police say they have freed Super Eagles midfielder, Christian Obodo, who was kidnapped in his hometown in the Niger Delta on Saturday morning. Delta state police spokesman, Charles Muka, sai...

EFCC arraigns Timipre Sylva over N6.46 billion fraud

June 5, 2012 no comments

ABUJA, June 5 (Reuters) – Nigerian authorities took a powerful former governor of a state in the oil-producing Niger Delta into protective custody on Tuesday, pending charges of fraud and money...

JTF arrests 21 Ghanaians, 5 Nigerians for illegal bunkering

May 8, 2012 no comments

The Joint Military Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta has arrested 21 Ghanaians and five Nigerians at Awoba, Degema Local Government Area of Rivers for alleged illegal ‘bunkering’. The t...

Shell reports two new leaks on Nigerian pipeline

May 8, 2012 1 comment

Nigeria’s oil-producing giant, Royal Dutch Shell, announced on Monday that it has discovered two new leaks on one of its pipelines in the oil-rich Rivers State. “Two new leaks were reported tod...

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