Nigerian militants threaten car bombs in oil delta
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A Nigerian militant group said in an email to media on Monday it would detonate three car bombs in strategic locations in the Niger Delta "any minute from now".
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Militants in speed boats  attacked an oil pumping station operated by Royal Dutch Shell  in a remote creek in southern Nigeria on Monday, an army  spokesman said.
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LAGOS  - Nigerian villagers and militants have stormed three oil pumping stations in the Niger Delta, halting production and trapping more than 100 workers on board, the energy giants Shell and ChevronTexaco said.
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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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Saboteurs have bombed two oil pipelines transporting crude from north and eastern Iraq to Baghdad's Dora refinery, oil security officials said on Saturday.
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A rebel warlord accused the Nigerian  government of violating a cease-fire and threatened to blow up  a gas plant on Friday, reviving a threat to Nigerian oil  operations which has driven crude prices to a record high.
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Nigeria's army launched an offensive against a separatist rebel group which has threatened oil installations and workers in the southern Delta region, an army spokesman said.
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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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The largest militant group in Nigeria's volatile oil-rich region called for a truce this week after the country's new president promised improvements for the people.
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Nigerian rebels fighting government  troops in the southern Port Harcourt area are poised to launch  an uprising across the entire oil-producing delta region to  force political reforms or gain sovereignty, a rebel leader  said on Sunday.
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YENAGOA, Nigeria  - Nigerian gunmen in about seven speedboats attacked an Agip oil export terminal in the Niger Delta early on Thursday and kidnapped three Italian workers, authorities said.
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Militants in Nigeria's oil-rich Delta region occupy an oil station, along with about 28 people - including soldiers.
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Militiamen trying to wrest control of the oil-rich Niger Delta threatened on Tuesday to launch a ``full-scale armed struggle&#39;&#39; on petroleum-pumping operations in Africa&#39;s
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At least seven oil workers are reportedly seized by gunmen as they lay pipelines off Nigeria's southern coast.
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Insurgents in Nigeriaâs southern Niger Delta will begin âa full-scale armed struggleâ to wrest control of the regionâs oil riches from the government on Friday, a rebel spokesman said today.
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Nigerian militants accused troops of razing a village in the oil-producing Niger Delta on Thursday and threatened reprisals but a military spokesman denied an attack on the Elem-Tombia community had occurred.
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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.