Nigeria lost billions of dollars in oil revenue at the peak of the militant attacks on oil and gas facilities in the Niger Delta, which slashed oil production from 2.2 million barrels per day to 1 million barrels per day last year, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu has said.
To tackle the scourge, the minister also unveiled a 20-point agenda aimed at instituting permanent peace in the oil-producing region.
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