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Nigeria oil rebels announce conditional ceasefire INTERNATIONAL

Nigeria oil rebels announce conditional ceasefire

A Nigerian rebel group has announced a conditional ceasefire and agreed to hold talks with the government following months of attacks on key oil and gas facilities that have hammered the economy.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
2 Nigeria pipelines attacked as new activist group emerges INTERNATIONAL

2 Nigeria pipelines attacked as new activist group emerges

Two Nigerian state-owned oil pipelines were blown up in the delta region Friday in attacks blamed on the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) militant group, a local security official said Saturday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Oil trades at fresh August high on hopes of producer action ECONOMY

Oil trades at fresh August high on hopes of producer action

Oil prices reached their highest levels in more than five weeks on Tuesday as the market rode optimism over potential producer action to prop up the market.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Boko Haram releases new video of alleged Chibok girls INTERNATIONAL

Boko Haram releases new video of alleged Chibok girls

Boko Haram on Sunday released a video of the girls allegedly kidnapped from Chibok in April 2014, showing some who are still alive and claiming others died in air strikes.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
New armed group says it blew up Nigerian oil pipeline INTERNATIONAL

New armed group says it blew up Nigerian oil pipeline

A newly emerged armed group has said it had made good on threats to Nigeria's vital oil industry by blowing up a major pipeline and warned that more attacks were to come.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Islamic State names new leader of Nigeria's Boko Haram INTERNATIONAL

Islamic State names new leader of Nigeria's Boko Haram

Islamic State has named a new leader of Boko Haram, the Nigerian militant group which last year swore allegiance to it. Abu Musab al-Barnawi was named Islamic State's governor for West Africa in a two-page interview in its weekly magazine, al-Naba, which was circulated late on Tuesday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Nigerian behind $60 mn online fraud network arrested: Interpol INTERNATIONAL

Nigerian behind $60 mn online fraud network arrested: Interpol

A Nigerian behind an online fraud network which engineered scams worth more than $60 million (54 million euros) has been arrested in southern oil city of Port Harcourt, Interpol said ...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
IEA says oil glut remains a major dampener on prices ECONOMY

IEA says oil glut remains a major dampener on prices

The global glut in oil is refusing to ease and acts as a major dampener on crude prices despite robust demand growth and steep declines in non-Opec production, the International Energy Agency said on Wednesday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Boko Haram kills 7 in northeast Nigeria INTERNATIONAL

Boko Haram kills 7 in northeast Nigeria

Boko Haram gunmen killed seven people in a raid on a town in northeast Nigerian Borno state near the border with Cameroon on Saturday, residents told AFP on Saturday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Oil bounces off 2-month lows but faces sharp weekly loss ECONOMY

Oil bounces off 2-month lows but faces sharp weekly loss

Crude prices bounced back on Friday from two-month lows hit in the previous session, but benchmark Brent was in line for its largest weekly decline since January as bearish economic indicators weighed on oil.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Oil sinks as Nigeria production rises ECONOMY

Oil sinks as Nigeria production rises

Oil prices fell sharply yesterday as news of increased production from Nigeria and a jump in overall Opec output stoked fears of the crude...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Niger Delta Avengers say five attacks launched since Friday INTERNATIONAL

Niger Delta Avengers say five attacks launched since Friday

The Niger Delta Avengers, a militant group which has carried out a series of attacks on Nigerian oil facilities in the last few months, on Sunday said it had mounted five attacks in the southern energy hub since Friday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016