Nigeria’s president has promised thousands more jobs and a new motorway for the oil-rich Niger Delta region. Olusegun Obasanjo told officials from the troubled states that new jobs would be created in the military, police and the state oil company. There has been an upsurge of violence in recent months in the Delta, which remains poor despite its oil wealth. Attacks by militants on foreign oil interests there have cut the country’s oil production by a quarter. Full Story