Nigeria oil city in slum clean-up
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All waterfront buildings and shacks in Nigeria's oil capital, Port Harcourt are to be demolished, officials say.
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To save costs, a global oil company dumped toxic waste on the doorstep of some of the worldÂs poorest people, spreading illness and killing eight.
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The drama of foreign oil workers kidnapped for ransom in restive southern Nigeria plays out so often that it seems the hostage takers, the oil giants and the army follow a script &#151; one that usually ends peacefully with the captives released unharmed.
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KIRKUK, Iraq  - Thousands of Iraqi police and soldiers launched a major security crackdown in the restive Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk on Saturday, searching homes for weapons after all residents were ordered off the streets.
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Shell's Nigerian subsidiary has restarted oil production at five platforms shut down last month by protests in the troubled Niger Delta, but a pipeline leak has cut output elsewhere, a company spokesman said Monday.
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LAGOS, Nigeria -- At least 12 people have been killed in a petroleum pipeline explosion in Nigeria&#39;s commercial capital Lagos, police said.
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Lolo Oluchi has painted  over the bullet holes in the ceiling of her karaoke bar in this  Nigerian oil city, where gunmen seized seven foreign oil  workers last August, but the regulars haven't come back.
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Rescue workers try to find survivors after a building under construction collapses in the Nigerian city of Lagos.
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WARRI, Nigeria  - It was polling day in the  sweltering Nigerian oil city of Warri and at election  headquarters everything was quiet. Very quiet.
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Young boys scamper along weed-entangled pipes, transforming an oil-pumping station marked "Not In Use" into a jungle gym in the heart of Nigeria's lawless oil region. Nearby wells rust under the palm trees, and gas-flaring chimneys have gone cold.
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At least 12 people have been killed in an explosion at a fuel pipeline on the outskirts of the Nigerian city, Lagos. Reports from Imore village, to the north of Nigeria&#39;s biggest city, say that some of the
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Many people were feared killed in an oil pipeline explosion on the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria&#39;s largest city, local media reported on Friday.
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Troop reinforcements and gunboats are sent to a Nigerian oil platform occupied by militants since Sunday.
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By Chris Nwachukwu and Francis Onwudo in Lagos, Chuks Okocha, Andy Ekugo, Juliana Taiwo in Abuja and Tunde Sanni in Ilorin. Organised Labour and civil society organisation were jolted early hours of yesterday
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Armed men have seized control of an oil complex in southern Nigerian owned by a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell PLC, authorities said Friday.
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Nigeria oil militants take control of an oil installation operated by Shell in the oil-rich southern Nigeria.
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MAYO, Sudan  - Hashim Khalil Osman peeks out from  the remains of his hut, partly bulldozed and then patched up  with plastic sacking, to see if help has arrived to alleviate  the misery of life in the slum suburbs of Khartoum.