Nigerian oil minister, Ibe Kachikwu, projects that Nigeria may increase output by about 60 percent within two years. Kachikwu (L) is shown here during a visit to Italy in January 2017 as he shakes hands with Angelino Alfano, then minister of Foreign Affairs but who left office in June. Photo by Claudio Peri/Epa Dec. 14 (UPI) — Ibe Kachikwu, Nigeria’s oil minister, said the West African country’s oil production may rise 60 percent by 2020, as the offshore Egina project comes online and as the country invests to recover output, in parallel to efforts to fight alleged bribing corruption involving two oil multinationals. “If we work hard enough by the end of 2019, and 2020, we ought to begin to see Nigeria’s production rise from the usual 1.8 million to 2.0 million barrels, up to between 2.5 million and three million barrels,” Kachikwu said, as reported Friday by Nigeria’s […]