FCO travel warning

On 10 July, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) announced that it would end its ceasefire from midnight on 12 July, and threatened to attack British interests in Nigeria. We believe that armed groups may be planning further attacks on oil and gas industry targets in the Delta, and on other non-oil and gas industry targets and individuals throughout the country. The high risk of further kidnappings by armed militants around the oil and gas facilities in the Niger Delta also applies to ships and oil rigs at sea off the coast of the Niger Delta.