Nigeria

In Nigeria, the amnesty offered last month by the government to militants in the oil-producing Niger Delta region, could be at risk if the state governors of the area carry out their threat not to support it.

The so-called South-South governors have said they will boycott the peace effort if the federal government fails to address some key issues - among them revising sections of the proposed Petroleum Industries Bill which they see as being unfavourable to them.

So what is the problem?

Focus on Africa's Bilkisu Labaran spoke to the Governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, on the line to Port Harcourt.