Depressed oil prices, rampant corruption, and pipeline vandalism are only parts of Nigeria’s oil problem. It’s now losing a massive 400,000 barrels of crude daily to pirates in the Gulf of ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Nigeria news every morning. Late one February night, a band of pirates hijacked a Chinese fishing trawler 80 miles off the coast ...

While attacks take place all the way from Ivory Coast down to Congo-Brazzaville, the pirates emerge almost exclusively from Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta. “Nigeria’s inability to ...

Pirates boarded a fully loaded supertanker off the coast of Nigeria, an act that is sure to ring alarm bells for insurers about the risk of collecting oil from Africa’s biggest producer ...

Eromosele Abiodun writes on efforts by the country to reduce incessant attacks on ships by pirates By the middle of last year when the Nigerian government announced the gradual deployment of the $ ...

GULF OF GUINEA, Nigeria | The gleaming Nigerian naval patrol boat heaved across the rough waters of the Atlantic Ocean in search of pirates. Beyond the crisp white hull, however, crew members in ...

JOHANNESBURG — A bloody pirate attack off Benin’s coast is raising concerns that Nigerian pirates — operating on the opposite side of Africa from Somali pirates — are extending their reach ...

JOHANNESBURGJOHANNESBURG — A bloody pirate attack off Benin’s coast is raising concerns that Nigerian pirates – operating on the opposite side of Africa from Somali pirates – are extending ...

The gleaming Nigerian naval patrol boat heaved across the rough waters of the Atlantic Ocean in search of pirates. Beyond the crisp white hull, however, crew members in cheap sandals manned ...

Pirate attacks off Nigeria are seeing a resurgence, at a rate of nearly one a week in the past three months, new numbers show. A report released Wednesday from the International Maritime Bureau ...

YENAGOA, Nigeria, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Nigeria's navy is hunting for pirates who kidnapped four crew from a ship off the coast of the West African oil-producing country at the weekend, a naval ...