Two Russian oil workers who were kidnapped two months ago have escaped from their captors and been picked up by the military after a harrowing five-day ordeal, an army spokesman said Thursday.

A military spokesman says kidnappers have released the wife of a former Nigerian energy minister.

A military spokesman says unidentified gunmen have kidnapped a Lebanese construction worker in Nigeria’s restive southern oil region.

The Nigerian military says kidnappers have released an Israeli hostage unharmed.

Kidnappers have seized an Israeli businessman in oil-rich southern Nigeria, officials said Wednesday.

Two French oil workers were kidnapped Sunday in Nigeria’s southern oil region, French officials said.

A Nigerian military spokesman says gunmen have kidnapped two more foreign workers in the country’s southern oil region.

Eight foreign oil workers kidnapped Saturday in Nigeria have been released unharmed, a military spokesman said.

Unidentified men in a speed boat seized eight foreign oil workers at gunpoint Saturday, a military official said.

A band of suspected militants attacked a naval houseboat stationed in Nigeria’s restive, oil-rich south Wednesday, sparking a gunbattle that left five people dead, military officials said.About 30 gunmen attacked a boat housing naval personnel assigned...