Oil workers targeted as Nigeria violence grows
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Lolo Oluchi has painted over the bullet holes in the ceiling of her karaoke bar in this Nigerian oil city, where gunmen seized seven foreign oil workers last August, but the regulars haven't come back.
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Authorities cracking down on violence in southern Nigeria&#39;s oil capital Port Harcourt have extended for the second time a curfew in the city.
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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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Near-simultaneous blasts tore through two oil company facilities in southern Nigeria on Monday, officials said, and the region's main militant group claimed responsibility, saying it had planted car bombs.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria -- One of seven foreign oil workers taken hostage yesterday was killed and another was wounded during a rescue attempt that also left two kidnappers and a soldier dead, officials said.
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(120 sec.) Africa's largest oil producer is facing a resurgence of violence and kidnappings driving oil prices up.
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NIGERIAN workers would disrupt their country&#39;s key oil exports of 2.5 million barrels per day with an indefinite general strike from November 16, the country&#39;s top labour leader warned today.
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The militant group behind a wave of attacks on Nigeria's oil industry claimed responsibility Monday for a weekend attack that officials said killed three soldiers.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen attacked an oil drilling rig and kidnapped five expatriates in the Niger Delta in southern Nigeria early on Wednesday, dealing a blow to a fledgling peace process in Africa's oil heartland.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Militants said they killed 17 soldiers in two separate gun battles in Nigeria's oil heartland on Wednesday and threatened imminent attacks on strategic oil facilities.
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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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Gunmen attacked an oil rig Wednesday in Nigeria's restive southern oil heartland and seized five expatriate workers, officials said.
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A foreign oil worker dies in a gun attack on a compound in the Nigerian oil city of Port Harcourt.
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A four-day general strike begins against fuel price rises in Nigeria, Africa's biggest oil producer.
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Oil should continue to flow from Nigeria despite a rebel threat to attack foreign oil workers, which has sent world oil prices to record levels above $50 a barrel, multinational energy companies said.
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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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The leader of a militia based in Nigeria&#39;s main oil region says he is to meet the president following his threat to attack foreign oil workers.