Nigerian Henry Okah has briefly appeared in the high court in Johannesburg ahead of his sentencing, before a short adjournment was announced.
Nigerian militant organisation Mend has threatened to attack SA investments, including MTN, unless their leader, Henry Okah, is released.
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/ 5 February 2012
Nigeria’s Movement for the Emancipaton of the Niger Delta has claimed responsibility for the attack on an oil pipeline owned by Italian firm Eni.
A court hasrejected a bail appeal for Henry Okah, the suspected ex-militant leader accused of ordering car bombings on Nigeria’s independence day.
The violence over the past two weeks highlights the tensions between Nigeria’s two major faiths — Christians and Muslims.
Muslim extremists may have planted the bomb that exploded at an army barracks in Nigeria’s capital, the country’s president said on Saturday.
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/ 22 November 2010
Mend threatened to cripple the country’s oil sector after Nigeria’s military confirmed it arrested militants believed to have kidnapped oil workers.
Nigerian terror-accused Henry Okah was denied bail by the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Friday despite denying being the leader of Mend.
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/ 13 November 2010
Nigeria’s main militant group in the oil-rich southern delta on Friday released a list of hostages it had taken from an attack on an offshore oil rig.
Nigerian terrorism accused Henry Okah’s bail application was postponed again in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.
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/ 8 November 2010
Five workers were kidnapped and two others injured on Monday at an oil rig just off the coast of Nigeria’s troubled southern delta.
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/ 18 October 2010
A diary entry by suspected Nigerian bombing conspirator Henry Okah talked about staging "a fight to the finish", a court heard on Monday.
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/ 15 October 2010
Nigerian former militant leader Henry Okah was a dangerous man and could compromise public safety if released on bail, a court heard on Friday.
Nigerian militant leader Henry Okah appeared in a Johannesburg court on Monday after he was arrested at the weekend by South African authorities.
SA authorities have arrested an ex-leader of a militant group that claimed responsibility for a dual car bombing that killed 12 people in Lagos.
Government accused of failing to avert independence day bombing, despite security warning from British intelligence.
Nigerian authorities hunted oil militants on Saturday who claimed responsibility for two car bombs that killed at least 12 people.
Car bombings near the area where Nigeria celebrated 50 years of independence signalled a return to violence by the country’s militant group.
Car bomb explosions killed eight people and injured three near a parade in Nigeria’s capital on Friday marking the 50th anniversary of independence.
Using tubes to funnel polluted water into his small boat, Nigerian teenager Daniel Muukor helps to "mop up" the latest oil spill in the Niger Delta.
Militants in the Niger Delta have threatened a fresh wave of potentially crippling attacks on Nigeria’s oil industry.
The death of Nigeria’s president Umaru Yar’Adua jeopardises long-awaited reforms of the nation’s decrepit and corruption-ridden oil sector.
Nigeria’s Acting President Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in as head of state on Thursday following the death of President Umaru Yar’Adua.
Royal Dutch Shell spilled nearly 14 000 tonnes of crude oil into the creeks of the Niger Delta last year, the company has announced.
The majority of militants who took part in an amnesty last year in the Niger Delta region are still behind the peace plans, the Nigeria says.
Two explosions shook the state governor’s office in Nigeria’s southern oil city of Warri on Monday where amnesty talks were being held.
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/ 4 February 2010
The Nigerian government warned Niger Delta militants on Wednesday against issuing threats of violence.
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/ 3 February 2010
Nigeria’s main militant group has been revitalised by growing frustration over the government’s lack of leadership.
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/ 30 January 2010
Nigeria’s main militant group lifted a three-month ceasefire on Saturday and threatened attacks against Africa’s biggest energy sector.
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/ 23 December 2009
Security forces have deployed in the Niger Delta to disperse former militants protesting over the non-payment of amnesty allowances.
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/ 26 October 2009
Nigeria’s main militant group has indefinitely suspended attacks on oil facilities in the Niger Delta to allow peace talks with the government.
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/ 20 October 2009
Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua has held his first-ever meeting with the leader of the main rebel group in the oil-rich Niger Delta.