The Niger Delta Avengers, a Nigerian militant group which has claimed responsibility for a series of attacks on oil facilities in the country’s southern energy hub, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to visit the region. The militant group says it wants a greater share of Nigeria’s oil wealth to go to the impoverished Delta region. Crude sales make up about 70 percent of Nigeria’s national income and most of that oil comes from the southern swampland. Last week, Petroleum Ministry officials said the government had agreed a one-month ceasefire with the militants, but the group later denied that. “President Buhari should visit Niger Delta,” the Avengers said on their Twitter feed on Saturday. Last month Buhari, […]