Nigerian troops and gangsters fought gun battles in the oil city of Port Harcourt on Thursday, killing several people, army and private security sources said. The army launched a dawn raid on several criminal hide-outs after six days of street battles between rival gangs last week, and the gangs responded by staging an armed assault on the state government headquarters.
Gang fighting entered its sixth day in the anarchic oil city of Port Harcourt in southern Nigeria on Saturday with authorities acknowledging 11 deaths and residents and media putting the toll much higher. Residents and security sources gave conflicting reasons for the gang war that erupted on Monday and has spread all over the city.
A Nigerian three-year-old boy has been released by his kidnappers one day after he was snatched on his way to school in the lawless Niger Delta, the boy’s father said on Friday. The kidnappers had demanded 10-million naira ( 600) for the child, relatives of the toddler said earlier.
Nigerian kidnappers have demanded 10-million naira (Â 600) for a three-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 Thursday came just four days after a British girl of the same age was released by her kidnappers in the same area.
Nigerian kidnappers have demanded 10-million naira ( 600) for a three-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 Thursday came just four days after a British girl of the same age was released by her kidnappers in the same area.
The Nigerian kidnappers of a three-year-old British girl have demanded money and negotiations to secure her release are about to start, the girl’s mother told Reuters on Friday. The toddler, Margaret Hill, was snatched on Thursday morning from the car in which she was being driven to school in Port Harcourt.
A protest by villagers at a major oil export pipeline complex in Nigeria entered a third day on Thursday and no crude was flowing through the facility, a protest leader said. Villagers from K-Dere occupied the pipeline hub at Bomu on Tuesday and forced Shell to shut 150 000 barrels per day of output.
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/ 20 February 2007
Gunmen kidnapped two Croatian and one Montenegrin oil worker from a bar in Nigeria’s oil city Port Harcourt, authorities said on Monday. The abduction in the city’s Iwofe district on Sunday night was the latest in a series of attacks against foreign workers in the world’s eighth largest oil exporter.
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/ 8 February 2007
Gunmen kidnapped a Filipino woman in Port Harcourt in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta, the first known abduction of a woman in the anarchic region, and a Frenchman was seized in a separate incident. Police said gunmen snatched the woman on Wednesday afternoon in a busy street as she was walking between a bank and her car.
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/ 16 January 2007
Gunmen killed 12 people including four community chiefs in an attack on a commercial boat in the remote creeks of Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta, police said on Tuesday. Western oil companies evacuated staff from three oilfields in the area, accounting for about 60Â 000 barrels per day of production.