Addax hikes Nigerian security after worker's death
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Addax Petroleum Corp. said on  Friday it increased security at its Nigerian operations  following the death of a contract employee who was kidnapped  from one of the company offshore platforms.
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One foreign oil worker was killed and another seriously wounded on Wednesday when the Nigerian military launched a mission to free seven oil workers taken hostage from an offshore oil field, military sources said.
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Police tightened security Sunday for the funeral of one of two prominent Sunni Muslim clerics whose murders on a busy Karachi street set off riots by supporters the previous day, officials said.
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YENAGOA, Nigeria  - Nigerian gunmen attacked an Agip oil export terminal in the Niger Delta at dawn on Thursday, kidnapping four foreign workers and killing a local youth, authorities said.
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The president of the largest labor union in Nigeria was arrested at gunpoint Saturday just two days before a general strike is due to take place.
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At least 60 people are now known to have died in an explosion in Lagos when thieves tried to siphon fuel.
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Security has been boosted in the Afghan capital for commemorations of the fifth anniversary of the killing of anti-Taliban resistance hero Ahmed Shah Massoud, after a deadly suicide blast.
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Nigerian gunmen kidnapped six Russians and shot dead a local driver in a dawn attack on a residential compound of the world's top aluminum producer in the southeastern town of Ikot Abasi, authorities said on Sunday.
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Nigerian security forces are reported to have detained the country&#39;s top union leader two days before a scheduled nationwide strike to protest fuel price increases.
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The death toll from an explosion at a fuel pipeline on the outskirts of the Nigerian city of Lagos has risen to around 60 as more bodies were recovered from the scene.
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Suspected militants invaded a residential  compound for foreign oil workers in Nigeria on Tuesday, killing  two guards and kidnapping at least five expatriates, oil  industry sources said.
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LAGOS : The death toll from an explosion at a fuel pipeline on the outskirts of the Nigerian city of Lagos has risen to around 60 as more bodies were recovered from the scene.
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Contractors get a boost from a major west African project.
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KANO, Nigeria -- A security guard in this dusty Nigerian city is living with tragedy -- a 14-year-old son whose dazed eyes, slow speech and uneven gait signal brain damage. Mustapha Mohammed says he knows who to blame -- Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drug maker.
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A Nigerian state official confirms that at least seven people have been executed, despite earlier denials.
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A major police operation is underway in Nairn following the fatal shooting of a local bank manager.
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JOHANNESBURG, May 29 -- New Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua vowed in his inaugural address Tuesday to work urgently to quell rising violence in the volatile Niger Delta, a major source of oil exports to the United States.