NIGERIA: Militia group vows to attack oil workers if firms stay in ...
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PORT HARCOURT, 28 Sep 2004 (IRIN) - An ethnic militia group in Nigeria&#39;s southeastern oil region vowed on Tuesday to attack oil workers there unless their companies shut down operations within three days.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Militants in speed boats attacked Nigerian soldiers escorting a convoy supplying oilfields operated by Royal Dutch Shell on Monday, ending a month of relative quiet in the Niger Delta.
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Nigeria's main umbrella union said Sunday  it would go ahead with a general strike in Africa's top oil  producer Monday to protest against rising domestic fuel prices.
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Major oil companies operating in Nigeria&#39;s oil-rich southern region say they will not give in to threats of attacks on their facilities and employees by militias.
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Oil should continue to flow from Nigeria despite a rebel threat to attack foreign oil workers, which has sent world oil prices to record levels above $50 a barrel, multinational energy companies said.
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A powerful Nigerian armed group threatened in an e-mail to the media on Sunday to resume attacks on oil facilities and kidnapping of foreigners, ending a four-month ceasefire.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Militants said they killed 17 soldiers in two separate gun battles in Nigeria's oil heartland on Wednesday and threatened imminent attacks on strategic oil facilities.
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INSURGENTS in Nigeriaâs oil-rich Niger river delta yesterday warned that they would launch &quot;a full-scale armed struggle&quot; against the central government on Friday, the 44th anniversary of independence from Britain.
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Rival Nigerian politicians are arming militias in advance of April elections, in hopes of rigging the outcome and gaining control of millions in oil revenue at stake.
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A militant group in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta said Thursday that a Lebanese hostage it reportedly freed had in fact escaped, and threatened retaliation against the Italian oil firm he worked for.
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Foreign oil workers in Nigeria's Niger Delta are warned to leave the region by a local armed militia.
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A union leader threatened Tuesday to extend a four-day nationwide strike in Nigeria that has helped push world oil prices to record highs.
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Nigeria's main umbrella union said Sunday it would go ahead with a general strike in Africa's top oil producer Monday to protest against rising domestic fuel prices.
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LAGOS (Reuters via SwissInfo) - Heavily armed gunmen in speedboats kidnapped seven workers, including three foreigners, from an offshore Nigerian oilfield in a major setback to peace in the Niger Delta. The raid on Saturday night was the first big attack on an oil facility in five months since the inauguration of President Umaru Yar'Adua, who had started a peace process to address rebel demands for more regional autonomy in the oil-producing wetlands of southern Nigeria. "Seven people were kidnapped from a supply vessel to the EA field. They are four Nigerians and three expats," said Olav Ljosne, a spokesman for Royal Dutch Shell, which operates the offshore field. He confirmed that the three foreigners were a Briton, a Croat and a Russian.  All other workers have been evacuated from the facility, which has not produced any oil since an earlier militant attack in February 2006. It had been expected to resume production by the middle of next year.
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Masked rebels from Nigeria's  oil producing Niger Delta vowed revenge against the government  and oil companies during the weekend funerals in remote  mangrove forests of nine militants killed by troops.
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Nigeria oil militants say they have seized four foreign workers and threaten more attacks ahead of an Opec summit.
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Abuja - Nigerian unions have threatened to extend their nationwide general strike, which entered its third day on Wednesday, continuing concerns about production in Africa&#39;s biggest oil-exporting nation.