Nigeria is the largest oil producer in Africa, though it’s plagued with risks as much of the industry is in the conflict-prone Niger Delta, analysis finds. The U.S. Energy Information Administration published an updated country profile of Nigeria at a time when militant attacks are escalating. A group calling itself the Niger Delta Avengers in February launched a campaign it called Operation Red Economy, urging revolution to wrestle the country away from the hands of the “wicked” administration of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari . According to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, member-state Nigeria produced an average 1.7 million barrels of oil per day in March, the last full month for which data are available. The EIA said […]