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Nigeria and Morocco are still securing funding for a huge pipeline project that aims to carry Nigeria’s gas to North Africa and onto European markets, the country’s petroleum minister said on Monday. Africa’s gas supplies are increasingly in the spotlight as the European Union looks to wean itself off Russia’s production after the invasion of Ukraine in February. Four years ago, Morocco’s King Mohammed VI and Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari agreed on the mega-project to carry gas along the Atlantic Coast in a deal that was first signed in 2016. Nigeria’s Minister of Petroleum Resources Tim…