Nigeria delays handing over Bakassi Peninsula
Nigeria will not hand over the disputed and potentially oil-rich Bakassi Pensinsula to Cameroon on 15 September, the date previously agreed with UN mediators, Nigerian officials said on Monday. Speaking after a series of closed door meetings with members of the federal parliament in Abuja, they said the 15 September deadline for Nigeria to withdraw its armed forces and its civilian administration from the swampy neck of jungle jutting into the Gulf of Guinea would be ignored. Full Story