Foreign workers kidnapped in Nigeria

LAGOS, Nigeria (Reuters) -- Foreign workers were kidnapped from a car under police escort in Nigeria's southern oil capital of Port Harcourt on Thursday, an industry source said, a day after a U.S. oil executive was shot dead there.
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Port Harcourt is the largest city in the Niger Delta, and several oil multinationals have major offices there, including Royal Dutch Shell and Agip.

But militants who have been waging a five-month-long campaign against the oil industry said they had no hand in the killing of the executive, who worked for Texan oil services company Baker Hughes.
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Attacks by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) have forced multinationals to cut Nigerian oil exports by a quarter, and the group had threatened this week to carry out more attacks on oil industry targets and individuals.
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awwww, poor oil companies.
I suppose it would be abhorrent to them to maintain production and share the wealth with the people of the country, and throw in a few perks like care with their environment.