From crude paradox to refined power

For sixty-six years, Nigeria lived one of the most bewildering contradictions in global economics. Africa's largest crude oil producer spent decades importing the very fuel refined from its own earth, crude pumped from the Niger Delta, shipped to European refineries, then sold back to Nigerians at a premium the country could barely sustain. A dysfunction that survived oil booms, military regimes, and four spectacularly failed rehabilitation programmes.

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