ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) -- Nigeria's president appointed a new minister Tuesday charged with pacifying the southern region of Africa's largest oil producing country.President Umaru Yar'Adua named former federal government secretary Ufot Ekaette as Niger Delta Affairs minister.
The ministry is charged with improving security, enhancing infrastructure and kick-starting development in the region that remains desperately poor in spite of over five decades of pumping crude. The ministry has a proposed budget of US$360 million (euro257 million) for 2009, though the figure has yet to be approved by the Senate.
Militants stage regular attacks on Nigeria's oil industry -- blowing up pipelines and kidnapping workers -- in hopes that the chaos will force the government to send more oil-industry funds to the impoverished region.
Attacks cut the country's oil production by about 1 million barrels a day in September. Before the attacks began in 2005, Nigeria was producing 2.5 million barrels a day.
The creation of the new ministry was seen as Yar'Adua's first step toward fulfilling his pledge of resolving the long-simmering crisis. That was 19 months ago when he took office, and he has since been accused of failing to deliver on inauguration promises.
The president appointed Ekaette, who is from the oil-producing state of Akwa-Ibom, amid an ongoing Cabinet shuffle.
Nigeria's Supreme Court earlier this month upheld his victory in the 2007 election, which observers had challenged as flawed.
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