Nigerian army hits oil city gangs
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Troops and helicopters gunships are deployed in Port Harcout, Nigeria, in a move against powerful gangs.
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Nigerian gunmen attacked an  Agip oil export terminal in the Niger Delta early on Thursday  and kidnapped three expatriate workers, the commander of the  armed forces in the region told Reuters.
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At least one person has been killed and four foreigners were kidnapped during an attack by armed assailants against an oil installation belonging to Italian company Agip in southern Nigeria.
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Nigeria launched an offensive yesterday against a separatist rebel group that has told multinational oil companies to shut their installations by tomorrow ahead of &quot;an all-out war on the Nigerian state&quot;.
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At least five Nigerian soldiers are killed in an attack by armed men in boats on an oil facility in the Niger Delta.
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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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Gunmen invaded an oilfield control station operated by Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria's Bayelsa state in the Niger Delta and are holding several people hostage, a company spokesman said on Friday.
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PORT HARCOURT -- Militants said they killed 17 soldiers in two separate gun battles in Nigeria's oil heartland yesterday and threatened imminent attacks on strategic oil facilities. The killings extend to four days a surge in violence between troops and rebels in the world's eighth largest oil exporter and follow the kidnapping of seven foreign workers from a US company ...
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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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Gunmen abducted two expatriate oil workers after an ambush in the Nigerian southern oil city of Port Harcourt, bringing to at least 10 the number kidnapped in the past week in the restive Niger Delta region, an industry source told AFP.
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LAGOS, Nigeria  - An oil pipeline exploded near Nigeria's largest city as thieves tried to siphon oil from it, with up to 50 people perishing in the flames, police said Friday.
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Nigeria's main militant group said Thursday it fired on six oil industry ships and threatened an attack that will cause an "economic tsunami" in the world's oil market.
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The Nigerian government has signed a cease-fire with three rebel groups that had been targeting foreign oil companies and their workers in the Niger Delta region, government officials said Friday.
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Armed men have attacked an oil installation belonging to the Royal Dutch Shell company in Nigeria's volatile southern Niger Delta region, industry sources said.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria : Nigeria&#39;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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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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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.