Hostage death raises stakes in Nigerian oil crisis
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The death of a British hostage in Nigeria's oil-producing south in a shootout between kidnappers and troops raises the stakes for oil workers but is unlikely to change much for the industry, security experts said on Thursday.
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Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has appointed a special adviser on the volatile oil-rich Niger delta, amid a spate of kidnappings of foreign oil workers in the region.
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Dozens of oil scoopers had died in an oil pipeline explosion on the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria&#39;s largest city, police and witnesses said on Friday.
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Police identify a British oil worker killed during an attempt to free seven men seized by Nigerian militants.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria -- One of seven foreign oil workers taken hostage yesterday was killed and another was wounded during a rescue attempt that also left two kidnappers and a soldier dead, officials said.
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Militants in Nigeria's oil-producing region claim responsibility for the kidnapping of four foreign workers.
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Nigeria's oil militants say they are ready for dialogue with the new president, if certain conditions are met.
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Gunmen have invaded an oilfield control  station operated by Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria's Bayelsa  state and are holding several soldiers and oil workers hostage,  security and industry sources said on Friday.
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Western experts worried about the   security of oil supplies from Africa's Gulf of Guinea have   considered several doomsday scenarios, including suicide   attacks by determined Islamist militants on offshore oil   platforms.
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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 oil workers in southern Nigeria, some of them expatriates, police and diplomatic sources said Friday.
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Dozens of people are feared dead after a fuel tanker explodes on a busy road in southern Nigeria's oil region.
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The Nigerian military said they would maintain a tough stance on hostage-takers despite the killing of a British hostage caught in the crossfire between the kidnappers and their rescuers.
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Four more people have been abducted in  the Niger Delta, authorities said on Monday, underscoring  insecurity in Nigeria&#39;s oil-producing region hours after a  3-year-old British girl was freed by her kidnappers.
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One hostage was killed and another injured when Nigerian security forces attempted to rescue a group of seven foreign oil workers kidnapped by armed men in southern Nigeria, the Italian oil group Eni said in Rome.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - One hostage was killed and two wounded on Wednesday when Nigerian troops launched a rescue attempt to free seven foreign oil workers abducted from an offshore oilfield, military and industry sources said.
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Up to 500 people could have been killed in violence in a southern Nigerian oil town, say Amnesty International.