Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s president, has won a second term in office with a lead of over three million over opposition candidate Atiku Abubakar, who made some bold promises on the campaign trails, including a promise to Niger Delta communities that if he won they could keep all oil revenues generated by supermajors operating in Nigeria’s oil-rich region. The first Buhari term was marked by violence in the Delta by various militant groups that claimed they were attacking oil fields and infrastructure in response to the poverty that reigns in the region despite the billions of dollars made from oil production and exports. The violence, coupled with more sort of traditional forms of vandalism such as oil theft from pipelines, created quite a few headaches for the Buhari government, leading to a serious slump in Nigeria’s total oil production and gravely affected the country’s export revenues as a result. However, […]