Gunmen seize Nigerian chief's son
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Militants in Nigeria's troubled Niger Delta seize the two-year-old son of a local chief, police say.
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The two-year-old son of a Nigerian chief is freed a day after being kidnapped by gunmen, his father says.
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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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Three-year-old kidnapped at gunpoint in Nigerian oil city of Port Harcourt, police say.
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Armed men killed a policeman in an overnight attack and kidnapped the wife of a prominent politician in southern Nigeria's oil hub Port Harcourt, a military spokesman said Wednesday.
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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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Gunmen attacked an oil facility in restive southern Nigeria overnight and took two foreigners hostage, private security contractors said Monday.
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The humanitarian aid group Care International today announced that the British-born head of its Iraqi operation had been kidnapped in Baghdad.
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Gunmen in speedboats kidnapped seven workers including three foreigners from an offshore Nigerian oilfield in a major setback to peace in the Niger Delta.
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A Briton was one of four foreign oil workers kidnapped in Nigeria on Friday, the Foreign Office confirms.
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Gunmen have kidnapped several foreigners in the main oil-producing region of southern Nigeria, military and industry sources said Friday.
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The Nigerian military has stormed a hideout and freed one of two Chinese workers abducted by unknown gunmen more than two months ago in the country&#39;s southeast, the police said Monday.
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Kidnappers snatched the 3-year-old daughter of a British worker as she was being taken to school Thursday in Nigeria's lawless southern oil region, police said.
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The wife of a prominent Nigerian politician has been kidnapped in the oil city of Port Harcourt, police say.
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Gunmen attacked two oil installations in southern Nigeria, kidnapping two senior Nigerian employees of Royal Dutch Shell PLC and two foreigners, security officials and colleagues said Monday.
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Gunmen kidnapped a group of foreign oil workers on Friday, including three Americans and four Britons, in Nigeria's unruly southern petroleum-producing region, officials said.
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Nigerian security forces arrested the country&#39;s top union official at gunpoint on Saturday, his union said, ahead of a general strike called for Monday which the government has declared illegal.