All worked for a sub-contractor of Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell. A spokesman said no ransom had been paid for their release.
Oil workers are regularly abducted in Nigeria by gangs saying they want a bigger share of oil revenues.
In a separate incident on Tuesday evening, five foreign oil workers were seized during a rare raid on a residential compound operated by ExxonMobil.
Two Nigerian security guards were killed when the gang stormed the compound in Akwa Ibom state in the eastern Delta.
No ransom
A spokesman for Shell said that no money had been paid to secure the release of the 25 hostages seized on Monday.
Industry sources say oil companies frequently strike clandestine ransom deals to free their employees.
The men were taken when a group of about 70 militants attacked a convoy of boats supplying oil fields operated by Shell in Rivers state.
At least ten soldiers were killed during the raid.
The BBC's Alex Last says the line between criminal gangs and political militants in Nigeria is often blurred.
Last month, President Olusegun Obasanjo promised strong action to curb armed groups in the Niger Delta.
But our correspondent says the incidents highlights the continued vulnerability of the oil industry, despite government pledges to crackdown on armed groups in the Delta.
He says oil companies are bracing themselves for further violence in the Delta as competing politicians try to use the armed groups to secure victory in next year's elections.
Now i was like asking myself...whats the purpose? The point has already been made...the point being that "we can attack u whenever we want to" but then these militants has continued to kidnap those that came to "invest" in the country, those that created the same oil industry we all want to work in, those that are meant to provide the famed transfer of technology...etc.Come to thinkm of it...those guys(expatriates) are not our problem, neither are they the source of our problems.The source of our problem lies in the trajedy that has played itself out in Bayelsa State,in the National Assembly, between Baba Iyabo and his Deputy,...that is currently playing itself out in Ekiti State and that which has been the bane of our existence.Need i tell u the name of the Monster? It starts with a C! ...Ok, you dont know(probably because you've been out of the country for ages)..its CORRUPTION.
The day thse militants redirect their anger against the Governors that have looted their collective heritage,that has connived with the Lords Of Abuja to rape and pillage the land...thats the days i will take off this facecap for them..(Sorry u cant see it).And until that day comes...Bros, these things wey we dey do no just dey pay...Make we just stop these kidnappings and killing of our fellow Naijas in the military....Please, if we wan fight,quarell, anger,beg,agitate, take it to those selected (elected) to take the blame and do the job..i don talk finish.
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Make this post in some quarters, and you'll get roasted. I've been there. Part of the problem our people have is that we keep living in denial.
These 'militants' are not the solution. They are just criminals.
For me the solution is simple. Instead of using whatever funds accrue from oil sales to throw parties, why don't we invest in the key thing: education. Then wait 20 years and see the difference. The lessons are there... Japan.
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