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Nigeria’s oil militants take their fight beyond the delta

By Matthew Green in Lagos

Published: July 1 2008 20:12 | Last updated: July 1 2008 20:12

Wanted: a hero to save Nigeria’s oil industry. The successful applicant should be as at home fighting speedboat-riding militants on the high seas and arresting international oil thieves as they are outwitting slow-moving bureaucrats. Success would liberate a flood of Nigerian crude to cushion the world economy from the impact of runaway oil prices. Failure could push energy futures in the direction of $200 a barrel.

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