After 98 days,the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta(MEND) handed over their two Italian hostages Cosma Russo and Franco Arena to a visiting Italian journalist Massimo Alberizzi in the Niger Delta on Thursday 15, 2007.

Deal or no deal, the Royal Dutch Shell says that the loss of 17 workers due to occupational hazards and violent conflicts and over 500,000 barrels of oil per day will not make the company abandon the Niger Delta region. Because, Shell is making huge profits as the largest oil producer in Nigeria with a daily output of over 2.6 million barrels.

Desperate Niger Delta militants attacked and killed two police escorts on a Nigerian LNG (Nigeria LNG) ferry Monday afternoon in Bonny.
The militants were looking for foreign oil workers to kidnap, but when they found none, they left and disappeared in the creeks leaving the passengers on the Nigeria LNG ferry in fear and trembling.

Militants attacked a Nigeria LNG(NLNG)ferry Monday afternoon and killed two Nigerian police escorts in desperate search for foreign oil workers to kidnap.

Nigeria has been faltering from ethnic discord, a result of a flawed system that has spelt neglect, poverty and agitations. Militancy and separatism are on the increase. Nigerian leaders have turned deaf ears to local and international warnings on her ills. Inaction may lead to a tragedy of an unimaginable proportion in the country.

There are conflicting reports on the case of Filipina businesswoman Josiebeth Foroozan whom the Nigerian Police reported had been abducted in the southern oil city of Port Harcourt as she got out of her car on February 7, 2007. But her abduction has been denied by a Foreign Affairs official in Manila, Philippines.