Read more Port Harcourt stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/4560/port-harcourt.htmlhttp://img1-cdn.newser.com/images/newser-black250x40.gifhttp://www.newser.com/2012 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorSat, 26 May 2012 09:38:27 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/15455/oil-hits-record-100-a-barrel.htmlNick McMaster<img src='http://img2-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=60035&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110401023805' border='0' />Crude oil prices jumped $4.02 today to push past $100 a barrel for the first time as Nigerian violence, disrupted Mexican exports, and the specter of dipping US stockpiles stoked supply fears in the face of ever-rising energy demands, CNNMoney reports. The previous record was $99.29, set November...A picture taken 13 December 2007 shows the Statfjord A platform ( background) and the loading buoy (foreground right), in the North Sea near Norway. Oil prices surged past the $100 a barrel mark today, Jan 2, 2008.http://www.newser.com/story/15455/oil-hits-record-100-a-barrel.htmlWed, 02 Jan 2008 11:11:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/3996/nigerian-kidnappers-free-toddler.htmlM. Morris<img src='http://img2-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=11031&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110401034218' border='0' />Four days after her terrifying abduction, a 3-year-old girl is back with her parents in southern Nigeria, "covered in mosquito bites" but otherwise OK, her father tells the BBC. Margaret Hill, who was snatched from a car at gunpoint on her way to school Thursday, was freed today and was...3-year kidnapped Margaret Hill sits inside a car after she was released in Port Harcourt, Nigeria Sunday, July 8, 2007. Nigerian gunmen have released the British toddler who was kidnapped in the country's oil-rich south, a regional official said Sunday. (AP Photo/George Osodi)http://www.newser.com/story/3996/nigerian-kidnappers-free-toddler.htmlSun, 08 Jul 2007 19:45:43 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/3928/kidnappers-threaten-toddlers-life.htmlSam Gale Rosen<img src='http://img2-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=10617&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110401034237' border='0' />Kidnappers in Nigeria have threatened to kill a 3-year-old girl unless her father takes her place, and negotiations for her release have begun. Margaret Hill's mother interrupted an interview today to join officials in bargaining for her safe return, Reuters reports, after recounting a chilling conversation in which an abductor...Militants wearing black masks, military fatigues and carrying Kalashnikov assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers patrol the creeks of the Niger Delta area of Nigeria, in this Friday, Feb. 24, 2006 file photo. Six foreign oil workers were kidnapped and a Nigerian sailor was killed when dynamite-wielding gunmen attacked an oil vessel early Tuesday, May 1, 2007, a navy spokesman said.(AP Photo/George Osodi, File)http://www.newser.com/story/3928/kidnappers-threaten-toddlers-life.htmlFri, 06 Jul 2007 07:30:00 CDT