Kaduna. Nigeria (CNN) — Nigeria’s military has ordered an incursion into militant camps in the oil-rich Niger Delta region after violence flared up again with attacks against oil companies and foreign workers, a military spokesman said...

In his first trip to the Niger Delta as president, Goodluck Jonathan promised in a speech to hundreds of former militants in the oil hub Port Harcourt that the government would better coordinate efforts to educate and reintegrate them into...

Nigeria has banned the film “District 9” from its movie theaters because of what it considers a poor portrayal of Nigerians. The country’s information minister, Dora Akunyili has asked movie houses in Abuja, the nation’s capital, to stop showing...

Militants in Nigeria say they have seized a ship carrying chemicals and are holding the crew of six. A statement from the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend) said the Sichem Peace had been captured near the Escravos oil base. It...

Nigeria’s main militant group said its fighters had attacked an oil facility belonging to Royal Dutch Shell in the Niger Delta on Monday, in the face of an amnesty offer from President Umaru Yar’Adua. Shell said it had shut in some...