https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Three Nigerian migrants attacked staff in a military hospital in Rome after testing positive for the new coronavirus,the defence ministry said on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.it/20200830/nigerians-attack-staff-at-rome-covid-19-treatment-centre Sun, 30 Aug 2020 13:56:09 +0200 nigerians-attack-staff-at-rome-covid-19-treatment-centre Italian police arrested 19 suspected members of a Nigerian mob on Thursday, including the leaders of a clan which forged alliances with other mafias and violently punished any who rebelled. https://www.thelocal.it/20190718/italys-nigerian-mafia-hit-by-major-police-raid Thu, 18 Jul 2019 16:00:23 +0200 italys-nigerian-mafia-hit-by-major-police-raid Italian giant Eni and fellow petroleum company Shell will stand trial in Italy over allegations of bribery and corruption in the 2011 purchase of an offshore oil block in Nigeria. https://www.thelocal.it/20171220/eni-shell-trial-italy-nigeria-kickback-scandal Wed, 20 Dec 2017 15:03:12 +0100 eni-shell-trial-italy-nigeria-kickback-scandal Italy's southern city of Salerno held a mass funeral on Friday for 26 young women from Nigeria who drowned earlier this month trying to cross the Mediterranean. https://www.thelocal.it/20171117/italy-funerals-26-nigerian-women-drowned Fri, 17 Nov 2017 12:21:57 +0100 italy-funerals-26-nigerian-women-drowned Post-mortem examinations on the bodies of 26 teenage migrant girls found dead in the Mediterranean in early November confirmed they almost all drowned at sea, Italian news agencies reported on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20171116/teenage-nigerian-girls-drowned-italy-autopsy Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:34:01 +0100 teenage-nigerian-girls-drowned-italy-autopsy An Italian priest who was kidnapped in Nigeria has been freed, Italy’s foreign minister announced on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20171018/kidnapped-italian-priest-freed-nigeria Wed, 18 Oct 2017 11:14:19 +0200 kidnapped-italian-priest-freed-nigeria An Italian priest has been kidnapped by gunmen in southern Nigeria, church officials in both countries have said. https://www.thelocal.it/20171014/italian-priest-kidnapped-in-southern-nigeria-vatican Sat, 14 Oct 2017 14:32:54 +0200 italian-priest-kidnapped-in-southern-nigeria-vatican Italian prosecutors have alleged that Nigeria's former president Goodluck Jonathan and his oil minister received kickbacks as part of a $1.3 billion deal involving oil giants ENI and Shell. https://www.thelocal.it/20170110/nigerias-ex-president-named-in-italian-oil-kickback-probe Tue, 10 Jan 2017 11:38:43 +0100 nigerias-ex-president-named-in-italian-oil-kickback-probe Italian police have managed to arrest an armed robber thanks to the heroic intervention of a 22-year-old asylum seeker from Nigeria. https://www.thelocal.it/20160115/video-asylum-seeker-foils-armed-robbery-at-italy-supermarket-crime Fri, 15 Jan 2016 16:06:16 +0100 video-asylum-seeker-foils-armed-robbery-at-italy-supermarket-crime UPDATED: An accidental explosion on an oil pipeline in Nigeria operated by Italian energy giant Eni left 12 people dead and three injured, the company said in a statement Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20150710/12-dead-in-nigeria-pipeline-explosion-eni Fri, 10 Jul 2015 16:07:59 +0200 12-dead-in-nigeria-pipeline-explosion-eni Italy’s health minister Beatrice Lorenzin on Thursday said that a 53-year-old doctor, who is currently being treated in Rome after coming into contact with a colleague infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone in September, has tested negative for the virus. https://www.thelocal.it/20141009/suspected-ebola-victim-tests-negative-for-virus Thu, 09 Oct 2014 19:33:00 +0200 suspected-ebola-victim-tests-negative-for-virus Shares in Italian energy giant Eni slid on Thursday after it emerged that the company's chief executive is being investigated over suspected corruption linked to a billion-dollar oil deal in Nigeria. https://www.thelocal.it/20140911/eni-ceo-in-nigeria-corruption-probe Thu, 11 Sep 2014 14:24:00 +0200 eni-ceo-in-nigeria-corruption-probe Doctors in the central Italian region of Marche have said that the Nigerian resident in Italy who was hospitalized on Tuesday with suspected Ebola is suffering from malaria. https://www.thelocal.it/20140910/woman-in-italy-with-suspected-ebola-has-malaria Wed, 10 Sep 2014 11:29:00 +0200 woman-in-italy-with-suspected-ebola-has-malaria A Nigerian woman resident in Italy was hospitalized on Tuesday with symptoms that have led doctors to fear she may be the country's first case of someone contracting the Ebola virus. https://www.thelocal.it/20140909/suspected-first-case-of-ebola-in-italy Tue, 09 Sep 2014 15:55:00 +0200 suspected-first-case-of-ebola-in-italy An Italian woman who was hospitalized in Turkey last week does not have the deadly Ebola virus and will return home soon, Italian media has reported. https://www.thelocal.it/20140826/italian-woman-cleared-of-ebola-in-turkey Tue, 26 Aug 2014 18:28:00 +0200 italian-woman-cleared-of-ebola-in-turkey An Italian woman travelling from Nigeria on Friday was stopped at Istanbul airport in a suspected Ebola case, Turkish media reported. https://www.thelocal.it/20140822/italian-woman-in-suspected-ebola-case Fri, 22 Aug 2014 15:19:00 +0200 italian-woman-in-suspected-ebola-case Italian oil major ENI reported unexpectedly strong results for the third quarter on Wednesday, despite a drop in production due to "geopolitical factors" in Nigeria and Libya. https://www.thelocal.it/20131030/eni-surprises-with-firm-profits Wed, 30 Oct 2013 13:45:00 +0100 eni-surprises-with-firm-profits