A Nigerian militant group whose attacks on energy facilities in the Niger Delta last year helped push Africa’s biggest economy into recession said on Friday it had ended its ceasefire. The Niger Delta Avengers announced a halt to hostilities in August 2016, although they carried out attacks in October and November last year. “Niger Delta Avenger’s ceasefire on Operation Red Economy is officially over,” the group said on its website ( www.nigerdeltaavengers.org/ ). “Our next line of operation will not be like the 2016 campaign which we operated successfully without any casualties; this outing will be brutish, brutal and bloody,” it said in a section of its statement addressed to oil companies. The move threatens Nigeria’s fragile economic growth and poses […]