Rebels from Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta said on Monday they had attacked a Royal Dutch Shell pipeline and killed 11 soldiers, but the army denied there had been any attack. The rebel Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta said in a statement that it had sabotaged the Shell pipeline at Awoba flow station.
Unidentified gunmen in Nigeria’s restive south have hijacked an oil-services vessel carrying 11 crew members, the military said on Wednesday. The hijackers are demanding about 000 for the release of the boat and the crew, including one Portuguese and one Ukrainian, according to military spokesperson Major Sagir Musa.
Nigerian troops freed a kidnapped British national during a dawn raid on Friday in a village on the outskirts of the country’s oil industry hub of Port Harcourt, a military spokesperson said. Major Sagir Musa said oil worker David Ward was rescued by troops in Abaara Etche village, 30km west of Port Harcourt.