Nigeria Oil Port Hit in Deadly Gang Assaults
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Coordinated assaults on two police stations, a hotel and a restaurant early Tuesday killed at least 10 people, the authorities said.
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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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Gunmen on Monday afternoon shot dead two policemen escorting a boat belonging to Nigeria&#39;s main gas company in the oil-rich south of the country, police said.
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Nigerian police said on Friday dozens of people had been killed in a petroleum pipeline explosion in the commercial capital Lagos early on Thursday morning.
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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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At least 13 people die in Nigeria when gunmen attack police stations and a hotel in Port Harcourt.
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At least 30 people are killed in Nigeria when a road tanker overturns and fire spreads to nearby cars and buses.
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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, kidnapping three Italian workers and killing a local youth, authorities said.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen attacked an oil drilling rig and kidnapped five expatriates in the Niger Delta in southern Nigeria early on Wednesday, dealing a blow to a fledgling peace process in Africa's oil heartland.
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Gun battles between  rival gangs in Nigeria&#39;s southern oil-producing state of Rivers  erupted on Tuesday in violence linked to a change of governor,  killing 15 people, local rights activists said.
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Near-simultaneous blasts tore through two oil company facilities in southern Nigeria on Monday, officials said, and the region's main militant group claimed responsibility, saying it had planted car bombs.
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Anambra state in Nigeria is tense after gangs set fire to the governor's office and other buildings, local officials say.
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At least 30 people were killed and several shops razed Saturday when a fuel tanker exploded in Port Harcourt, the hub of Nigeria's multi-billion-dollar oil industry and a target of attacks by militants.
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Four foreign oil workers  were kidnapped by armed men from a bar in Nigeria's southern  oil city of Port Harcourt, witnesses and police said on Monday.
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Gunmen attacked a southern Nigerian oil export terminal belonging to a subsidiary of Italy's Eni SpA early Thursday, taking three Italians and a Lebanese hostage and killing another person, officials said.
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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.