Another hotly contested liquid is oil.
Nigeria is sub-Saharan Africa‘s largest producer of oil, and all ofthis high-quality oil is in the south. Nigerians in the north complainthat the profits from that oil are not shared equitably across the coun-try‘s regions. This in turn exacerbates the ethnic and religious ten-sions between the peoples from the Nigerian delta and those in thenortheast. - P129
It is formed from the territoriesof several ancient kingdoms that the British brought together as anadministrative area. In 1898, they drew up a "British Protectorate onthe River Niger" that in turn became Nigeria. - P130