This has given hope to the world’s shipping fleets, as legal reforms will help stem rising attacks in the Gulf of Guinea, Reuters reports. The three men fined by the court in Port Harcourt, Nigeria’s ...

Pirates have launched a series of attacks in the creeks of Nigeria's oil vessel and abducted three people. Pirates have kidnapped three Nigerians in an attack on an oil industry supply vessel off ...

In what sounds like a eerie a repeat of one the biggest movies of the moment, pirates have seized an oil vessel off the coast of Africa and kidnapped its captain. The difference is that it was not the ...

Rebels in Nigeria are reportedly in contact with pirates holding two U.S. crewmen seized earlier this week from the offshore supply vessel C-Retriever, The Associated Press reports. According to the ...

DAKAR/LONDON, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Nigerian pirate gangs are moving into the waters of neighbouring countries and attacking vessels further offshore after being driven from their coastal haunts by a ...

Pirates killed two Nigerian naval guards and kidnapped four foreigners in an attack on a ship being used by an oil servicing company in waters off southeastern Nigeria on Saturday, the navy said, ...

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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) – Nigeria’s navy killed six pirates and injured one other in its latest attack to try to stop the outlaws from expanding their territory in the Gulf of Guinea, a navy official said ...

YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria's navy is hunting for pirates who kidnapped four crew from a ship off the coast of the West African oil-producing country at the weekend, a naval spokesman said on ...

May 23, 2023: The Niger River Delta is where most of the Nigerian oil is found and extracted. Most of the rest comes from a growing number of off-shore wells. For over half a century all that oil has ...