“The Obama administration is renewing an offer to help Nigeria marshal military and intelligence resources against a growing extremist threat that U.S. officials fear could spread to neighboring nations, a U.S. official said Thursday.  U.S. officials have been frustrated by what many see as a slow and parochial response to the spread of a violent Islamist movement in the country’s north.  Clinton also lobbied President Goodluck Jonathan to help move stalled legislation affecting foreign oil companies, the senior State Department official said.”