Nigerian militants in prison break-out

FIVE militants have escaped from a jail in Nigeria's main oil hub Port Harcourt by using their metal beds as ladders to climb over the walls, a prison spokesman said.

Militants, who say they are fighting for a fairer share of the country's oil wealth, have been behind years of sabotage attacks and kidnappings of oil workers in the Niger Delta, the heartland of Africa's largest oil and gas industry.