Nigerian militants threaten more oil sabotage

Armed militants in Nigeria vowed yesterday to cut daily oil exports from this West African nation’s troubled delta region by another one million barrels by the end of March, as OPEC nations prepared for a strategy meeting in Vienna this week.

A wave of militant assaults on pipelines and oil facilities has already cut production by 455,000 barrels per day in Nigeria, which normally exports 2.5 million barrels of crude daily.