Nigeria gives villagers three days to leave oil platforms
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Nigeria&#39;s Rivers State government has asked hundreds of villagers occupying three oil platforms in a dispute over jobs to vacate them within three days, a government spokesman said yesterday.
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Lagos, Nigeria, Sep. 30 (FIDES/CWNews.com) - Lagos (Fides Service)- The leader of a Nigerian rebel group which has threatened to sabotage oil production in the Niger River delta is in Abuja, the capital of
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A 3-year-old Nigerian  boy has been kidnapped in the oil-producing Niger Delta in  southern Nigeria, police said on Thursday, four days after a  British girl of the same age was released by her kidnappers.
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Nigerian villagers lifted their blockade of three oil pumping stations in the volatile Niger Delta after energy giants Shell and ChevronTexaco agreed to discuss funding local development projects.
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Oil unions launched a three-day strike Wednesday over worsening security in an oil-rich region on Nigeria as Chevron confirmed the death of one subcontractor and injuries to two others there.
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A general strike in Nigeria which has  raised fears over oil supplies was set to enter a fourth day  after a court rebuffed a government request to declare it  illegal on Wednesday.
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PORT HARCOURT - Hundreds of unarmed Nigerian villagers, including women and children, seized three oil platforms operated by multinational oil companies yesterday, shutting 90,000 barrels per day of production in a dispute over jobs.
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A community protest in Nigeria's southeastern Abia State has forced the closure of two flowstations and a gas plant, shutting in about 35,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude, Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell announced.
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Hundreds of protesters have besieged two oil platforms run by Royal Dutch/Shell Group Cos. and ChevronTexaco Corp. in Nigeria's southern oil region, shutting down production of 90,000 barrels of oil a day, company officials said Monday.
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Nigerian villagers have ended their three-day occupation of three oil installations in the Niger Delta. Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell said the protestors on its two plants had departed to nearby village Freetown, on Tuesday.
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Attack helicopters battled speedboats full of armed fighters for control of key oil installations. Seven foreigners were abducted from a residential compound, and militants claimed dozens of soldiers were killed. Even by the standards of Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta region, it has been a bloody week.
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All seven foreign hostages seized by gunmen from an offshore Nigerian oil field were released on Monday after two days in captivity, a state government spokesman said.
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Security is improving in  Nigeria's oil-producing delta and oil companies are considering  a return for evacuated workers following a peace deal signed by  a rebel militia, industry sources said on Sunday.
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SIDOARJO, Indonesia  - Village chief Haji Hasan is   looking for a miracle to save what is left of the Indonesian   hamlet of Kedungbendo from a torrent of mud flowing unchecked   from an exploratory oil well.
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The Nigerian government has signed a cease-fire with three rebel groups that had been targeting foreign oil companies and their workers in the Niger Delta region, government officials said Friday.
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Nigerian militants said they  planned to release 11 foreign hostages in the oil producing  Niger Delta on Monday and state authorities said they were on  their way to collect them.
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Angry villagers in Nigeria&#39;s restive oil-producing south have stormed and shut down three oil flow stations, preventing at least 107 oil workers from leaving two of the facilities