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Three people are killed and 77 others are injured in an explosion caused by explosives stored for use in illegal mining operations at several buildings in Ibadan, Nigeria.
2024-01-17

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

Several explosions are reported near a Christian service at Bayero University Kano in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, with at least 16 people killed.
2012-04-29

At least 5 people are killed and at least 10 others are wounded in a bomb attack on a bar in Maiduguri, Nigeria. It follows a bomb that killed 25 people this day last week.
2011-07-3

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

Saboteurs attack an oil pipeline in Nigeria's Niger Delta, shutting in 4,000 barrels a day of crude oil production.
2010-10-29

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