Militant sentiment is on the rise once again in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta, with local media reporting fresh threats issued by a hitherto unknown group to shut down all oil activity if companies fail to remove staff by the end of May, writes Barry Morgan.
As Nigerian security agencies try to recover oil workers kidnapped from an oil rig on OML-24 , their resources are increasingly stretched as the government battles growing banditry and unabated Islamist terror in the north.
