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A fire at a refugee camp in Nigeria kills eight and leaves 15,000 homeless. The residents are people displaced by ongoing conflict with Boko Haram.
2019-03-16

12 Nigerian policemen are missing and presumed dead after their boat was ambushed by militants in the Niger Delta region.
2013-04-7

A Dutch court rules that Royal Dutch Shell can be held partially responsible for pollution in the Niger Delta in southern Nigeria.
2013-01-30

Gunmen attack a pub in central Nigeria's Plateau State and open fire on customers, killing 10 people.
2012-11-27

Gunmen attack an oil barge off the Niger Delta in Nigeria, killing two navy sailors and kidnapping four foreigners.
2012-08-4

Nigerian soldiers raid suspected militant camps in the Niger Delta in a new offensive.
2011-05-12

Voters in Nigeria go to the polls for state governor elections.
2011-04-26

An armed group kidnaps at least two Americans, two Frenchmen and a Canadian from a Transocean oil rig in the Okoro Oilfield off the coast of Niger Delta, Nigeria, injuring two others.
2010-11-8

To persuade its volatile – and poor -- Niger Delta's oil region to reduce the conflict in the Niger Delta, Nigeria proposes handing over 10% stakes in its biggest energy industry to “host communities”.
2010-02-19

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), a militant group in the Niger delta region of Nigeria, announces the end of its unilateral ceasefire.
2010-01-31