EghtesadOnline: Facing the likelihood of its first full-year economic contraction in 25 years, Nigeria is contemplating a rare sale of stakes in the oil and gas industry, the country’s biggest foreign-exchange earner.

EghtesadOnline: Oil prices gained on Monday after a steep fall the session before, buoyed by expectations that a joint OPEC and non-OPEC meeting later in the day may address rising output in Nigeria and Libya, two OPEC members so far exempt from a push to cut production.

EghtesadOnline: Nigeria and Libya, two crude suppliers in OPEC whose output was crushed by domestic conflicts this year, are ramping up again and spelling out what could become the producer club’s biggest challenge as it grapples with a global supply glut.

EghtesadOnline: Amid the most enduring global oil glut in decades, two OPEC crude producers whose supplies have been crushed by domestic conflicts are preparing to add hundreds of thousands of barrels to world markets within weeks.