Port Harcourt

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  15 Workers Kidnapped In Nigeria's Oil Hub: Police

  Gunmen have kidnapped 15 oil workers on a road near Nigeria's oil hub of Port Harcourt, police said on Saturday, in the latest unrest in the restive region.

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  Nigeria Rejects 'World's Worst Airport' Tag

  Unhelpful staff, demands for bribes, lack of seating, broken air-conditioning and a tent for an arrivals hall. Nigeria's Port Harcourt International Airport was recently voted the worst in the world.

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  5 Killed in Gang Shoot-Out in Nigeria's Port Harcourt

  Gunmen suspected to be gang members shot dead five local residents at the weekend near Nigeria's oil city of Port Harcourt, the police said on today.

• Nigeria Monitoring 400 Contacts of Doctor Who Died of Ebola

  Nigerian authorities are monitoring nearly 400 people for signs of Ebola after they came in contact with a Port Harcourt doctor who died of the disease but hid the fact that he had been exposed, a senior Nigerian health official said on Thursday.

• Nigeria Records Another Ebola Case in Oil City, 17 Cases Total

  Nigeria has a third confirmed case of Ebola in the oil hub of Port Harcourt, bringing the country's total confirmed infections to 17, with 271 people under surveillance, the health minister said on Monday.

• Nigeria 'Robbers' Accidentally Blow Up Own Bus

  A suspected armed robber was killed when explosives his gang was transporting accidentally went off in the centre of Nigeria's main oil city of Port Harcourt on Thursday, police said.The blast ripped through a minibus carrying at least three suspected robbers, four AK-47 rifles and a large amount of ammunition, Rivers State Police Commissioner Moha...

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  EPL star's brother kidnapped in Niger

  Gunmen in Niger have seized the elder brother of Everton and Nigeria player Joseph Yobo from a hotel in Port Harcourt, Southern Nigeria, police said.