EXPLAINERS
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, 29th May 2018 addressed the nation in commemoration of the 19th year of Nigeria’s democracy and the 3rd Anniversary of his administration. In his speech, he made a number of claims which may or may not be true, false or just plain exaggeration.
The president’s claim that crude oil was selling for $100 per barrel between 1999 and 2014 is FALSE as available data showed that the figure is $61.7 per barrel. Nevertheless, it was confirmed that Nigeria’s oil production figure is an average of 2.1m barrels per day.
The doctor letter submitted by Mr. Metuh to the Federal High Court is authentic and the controversy around it was needless.
The minister says “Agriculture and agric value chain alone have created more than 5-7 million jobs.”