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Lagos — NIGER-Delta crisis deepened weekend, as militants kidnapped six Russians, a Briton and three other men in separate operations in Ikot Abasi and Port Harcourt.
The six Russians were kidnapped from an aluminium firm and a driver attached to one of the firms; Group Five, shot dead.
Abuja — Ahead of the postponed national summit on the Niger Delta crisis which would hold in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), tommorow Abuja, President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua yesterday said the troubled oil producing region remained the priority his administration.
MILITANTS again struck yesterday in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, abducting four expatriate staff said to be working for an oil servicing company, Schlumberger. The abduction came just as six foreign oil workers kidnaped by armed men in the troubled creek last month were handed over to Bayelsa State governor, Chief Timipre Sylva.