An unidentified armed group kidnapped nine South Korean construction workers and a local person in Nigeria today, the Foreign Ministry said.

Armed men have besieged an oil complex in southern Nigerian owned by a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell PLC, a local leader said today.

Nigerian police said a foreign oil worker was kidnapped by armed men this morning from a Royal Dutch Shell gas plant.

All six kidnapped British oil workers in Nigeria have been released, it was announced today.

NIGERIAN kidnappers have said their American hostage is gravely ill and threatened to kill three other foreign oil workers held captive if he died.

Negotiators worked to free four foreigners held hostage in Nigeria’s southern oil region as militants claiming to hold the captives said they would target oil installations if their demands were not met within days.

Militants vowed to prevent voting today in a broad swathe of Nigeria’s oil delta during elections that pose a test for civilian rule in Africa’s most populous nation.

DOZENS of villagers have been killed, many hacked to death, in three days of clashes between rival political factions battling for influence in an oil-rich area of the Niger Delta, activists and witnesses said on Tuesday.