Rivers, Nigeria News

Gunmen in Nigeria have demanded US$12 million for the release of an Israeli expatriate kidnapped earlier this week at his home in the southern oil city of Port Harcourt, an Israeli embassy source said.

The Rivers State Government has begged the criminals who kidnapped an Israeli businessman Ehud Arny, Tuesday, to set him free because the man is from a holy land and therefore, "anointed, and God said touch not ...

Kidnappers have seized an Israeli businessman in oil-rich southern Nigeria, officials said Wednesday.

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is still holding the Chairman of Ibeto Cement Company, Port Harcourt , Cletus Ibeto who was arrested on Tuesday following allegation of breach of contract.

The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has said broadband services are within the doorsteps of the country as some operators have begun offering these services on wireless platforms ahead of a State ...

PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria : Nigerian police say kidnappers have seized an expatriate in oil-rich southern Nigeria.

The Nigerian military has described as ''baseless and unfounded'' the allegation that its soldiers killed 12 unarmed civilians in the restive oil region of the Niger Delta on Sunday.

True to the expectation in informed political circles, Senator Liyel Imoke, whose election as Governor of Cross River State was cancelled last month by the court, has reclaimed the seat.

In the wake of copyright infringement claims and subsequent raids by government operatives on Metro Digital, the company has denied all piracy charges and is bringing several lawsuits against the Nigerian ...

Nigerian soldiers are on the offensive in the Niger Delta, in a bid to stop a lucrative oil smuggling business.

THE Rivers State Government plans to establish community police corps to shore up security in every part of the state as well as "provide a more peaceful and secured environment for the people." To this end the ...

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta has accused the Joint Task Force of extra-judicial killings.

N AVAL personnel and militants again clashed in Rivers State yesterday. About 13 casualties were recorded in the offensive allegedly launched on the Naval men in Okirika.

The relative peace which security agencies had engendered in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital was again shattered yesterday when sporadic shootings by suspected criminal elements sent people scampering in ...

"Rape is prevalent: these militants do anything they like, and when there is conflict, the military move in, and they too will commit rape," C. Okeh, chair of the State Action Committee on HIV/AIDS, said.

By Austin Ekeinde

PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - Twelve Nigerian militants and a naval officer were killed in a gunbattle on Friday near a Royal Dutch Shell natural gas plant in the oil-producing Niger Delta, military and security sources said.

Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa, spokesman for the military task force in southern Rivers state, said militants ambushed two navy gunboats on patrol in Rivers state. The Shell-operated gas plant did not come under fire.

"This evening our men of the (Joint Task Force) came under attack around Alakiri on the Port Harcourt-Bonny sea route," said Musa. "We responded and exchanged fire and we killed several of the militants."

For the third week running, the Joint Task Force in Rivers State yesterday recorded another hard blow on militants when at Alakiri, near Okrika, 12 of the hoodlums were killed when they attacked a naval patrol ...

PORT HARCOURT, 14 August 2008 - The deployment of additional troops to Nigeria's restive, oil-soaked delta has managed to improve security, but not even their commanders believe there can be a military solution ...

FOURTEEN Filipinos arrested by the Joint Task Force, JTF, for illegal oil bunkering in Nigeria and remanded at the Okere Federal Prison, Warri, on the order of a Chief Magistrate Court have since disappeared ...

NO fewer than eight militants would have lost their lives in an encounter with the Navy on the water ways around Caw thorn channel on Wednesday.