Sapele, Nigeria News

In war trivial causes produce momentous events - Gaius Julius Caesar It does not matter by who, what is clear now is that the police, the Nigerian armed forces including the intelligence have failed.

Two men came out of nowhere as Greg Ock's car idled in traffic in a remote Nigerian town.

Effurun By Emma Amaize WARRI-SECURITY has been beefed up in the twin cities of Warri, Effurun and environs in Delta State, following the recent escapades of kidnappers, who, weekend, shot dead a mobile policeman and kidnapped a Sapele-based American expatriate.

Gunmen kidnapped an American working for Marubeni Corp in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta region on Friday, killing his driver and demanding a 50 million naira ransom, police and a security source said.

As thousands of Nigerians flee to their home regions following a spate of Islamist killings of southerners and revenge attacks on mosques and northerners, the BBC's Abdullahi Tasiu Abubakar considers whether the situation has parallels to the 1967 civil war, which left some one million people dead in Africa's biggest oil producer.