Militants hold Nigeria oil base
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Militants in Nigeria's oil-rich Delta region occupy an oil station, along with about 28 people - including soldiers.
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LAGOS, Nigeria - Insurgents in Nigeria&#39;s southern Niger Delta will begin an armed struggle to wrest control of the region&#39;s oil riches from the federal government starting Oct. 1, a rebel spokesman said Tuesday.
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Suspected militants invaded a residential  compound for foreign oil workers in Nigeria on Tuesday, killing  two guards and kidnapping at least five expatriates, oil  industry sources said.
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A rebel group battling rival militias and government forces in Nigeria&#39;s oil-rich delta has threatened to target oil installations in an escalation of the conflict.
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A group of gunmen wearing security force uniforms invaded a compound in restive southern Nigeria and kidnapped four foreign oil workers without firing a shot, police said Saturday.
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Militants in the Niger Delta demand evidence that detained leader Henry Okah is alive.
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At least seven oil workers are reportedly seized by gunmen as they lay pipelines off Nigeria's southern coast.
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The Nigerian army has sent more troops to drive militants from an oil plant they have occupied since they abducted 27 people there at the weekend, a military officer said Tuesday.
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YENAGOA, Nigeria  - Nigerian militants freed 12 foreign hostages in the oil producing Niger Delta on Monday as a prelude to peace talks with the incoming government of President Umaru Yar'Adua.
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Armed militants attacked an Italian-owned offshore oil platform in Nigeria early Friday and seized six workers, of Polish Filipino and Nigerian nationality, oil company ENI said.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Hundreds of unarmed  Nigerian villagers, including women and children, seized three  oil platforms operated by multinational oil companies on  Sunday, shutting 90,000 barrels per day of production in a  dispute over jobs.
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Twenty-four Filipino hostages shuddered as dozens of armed Nigerian militants danced around them. The hostages are being held as part of a wider rebel campaign over Nigeria's distribution of oil wealth. In an exclusive report, the hostages tell CNN's Jeff Koinange they are OK. The rebel leader says this is just the beginning of their battle.
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Insurgents in Nigeria's southern Niger Delta will begin an armed struggle to wrest control of the region's oil riches from the federal government starting Oct. 1, a rebel spokesman said Tuesday.
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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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A freed Nigerian oil militant vows to continue his struggle to keep more oil wealth 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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Armed men kidnapped four more foreign oil workers in Nigeria's southern oil city of Port Harcourt but released three Filipinos abducted more than 10 days ago in the latest of a series of incidents in volatile Niger Delta.