Nigeria probes Delta gang links
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Nigerian President Yar'Adua orders an inquiry into claims that state officials are linked to criminal gangs.
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LAGOS : The head of a separatist movement in Nigeria&#39;s southern oil-rich Niger Delta, Mujahid Dokubo Asari, announced on Tuesday evening that he would meet President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abuja on Wednesday.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen kidnapped a Filipina woman in Port Harcourt in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta, the first known abduction of a woman in the anarchic region, and a Frenchman was seized in a separate incident.
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The Federal Government yesterday revealed that security agencies are holding talks in Abuja with the leadership of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), led by Alhaji Asari Dokubo, over the continued unrest in the Niger Delta.
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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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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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ABUJA  - The African Union observer force in the war-torn western Sudanese province of Darfur has launched an investigation into an attack on one of its helicopters, AU spokesman Assane Ba said.
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Militants in the Niger Delta demand evidence that detained leader Henry Okah is alive.
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There are some signs of progress in resolving the Nigerian conflict that is riling global oil markets. The leader of militia fighters threatening to widen a battle for control of Nigeria&#39;s oil-rich south has
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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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Links between the far-right and Scottish street gangs are uncovered by a BBC Scotland news website investigation.
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At least four foreign oil workers have been kidnapped in southern Nigeria's oil-rich Delta region, officials say.
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The factional leader in a powerful Nigerian rebel group in the oil-producing Niger Delta is being detained in Angola on arms trafficking charges, his wife told Reuters on Saturday.
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A top Niger Delta militant leader, Henry Okah, has been extradited from Angola to Nigeria, say officials.
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Â· Child hostage in Nigeria in 'good health' say police Â· Plan to swap girl for father rejected by officials
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NIGERIA LAGOS -- The Nigerian government yesterday disclosed a foiled coup plot, charging four military officers and a civilian with conspiring to topple the government by shooting down a helicopter carrying President Olusegun Obasanjo. Major Hamza al-Mustapha, former chief of personal security to the late military dictator General Sani Abacha, and four others, were each charged with two counts of ...
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The bodies of 12 people killed by police in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna are exhumed to find out how they died.