laogs – The Mail & Guardian

/ 20 February 2008

Nigerian oil rebels demand proof leader is alive

A rebel group from Nigeria’s oil producing Niger Delta demanded on Wednesday that lawyers, relatives and the Red Cross be allowed to see their detained leader, Henry Okah, to confirm he is alive. The government denied a report by the rebel Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta that Okah had been shot dead.

By Estelle Shirbon

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/ 24 January 2006

Gunmen attack Nigerian oil facility

Gunmen mounted on speedboats stormed a riverside oil facility in the southern Nigerian city of Port Harcourt on Tuesday and opened fire on the police, killing several of them, a witness said. An oil industry security source said that reports indicated that seven policemen and two civilian workers, including an expatriate, had been killed.

By Staff Reporter