Oil workers threatened in Nigeria
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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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Lagos - Nigerian workers will disrupt their country&#39;s key oil exports of 2.5 million barrels per day when they launch an indefinite general strike on November 16, the country&#39;s top labour leader warned on Sunday.
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A four-day strike against fuel price rises in Nigeria, Africa's biggest oil producer, begins.
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A general strike in Nigeria which has raised fears over oil supply from the world's seventh largest exporter, will likely end its first phase on Thursday, union leaders said.
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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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A rebel warlord accused the Nigerian  government of violating a cease-fire and threatened to blow up  a gas plant on Friday, reviving a threat to Nigerian oil  operations which has driven crude prices to a record high.
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The leader of a militia based in Nigeria's main oil region says he is to meet the president following his threat to attack foreign oil workers.
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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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Militiamen trying to wrest control of the oil-rich Niger Delta threatened on Tuesday to launch a "full-scale armed struggle" on petroleum-pumping operations in Africa's largest crude oil producing nation, urging foreign oil workers to leave the region.
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Oil prices have raced to new record highs above $50 as rebel threats against Nigerian oil facilities threaten to inflict further strain on global supplies.
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Nigeria Unions Declare Royal Dutch/Shell an &#39;Enemy,&#39; Say Nov. 16 Strike Will Target Oil Exports. President of the Nigerian Labor Congress (NLC) Adams Oshiomhole speaks to journalist in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2004.
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Five oil workers have been kidnapped in southern Nigeria's oil-rich Delta region, officials say.
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Nigerian oil militants say they have seized four foreigners and threaten more attacks ahead of an Opec summit.
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A general strike in Nigeria which has  raised fears over oil supply from the world's seventh largest  exporter, will likely end its first phase on Thursday, union  leaders said.
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Nigeria oil militants take control of an oil installation operated by Shell in the oil-rich southern Nigeria.
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Major oil companies operating in Nigeria&#39;s oil-rich southern region say they will not give in to threats of attacks on their facilities and employees by militias.
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Nigeria's main oil workers unions will meet with President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abuja to try to end the unrest threatening oil companies in the Niger Delta, labour leaders said.