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How Accurate Is Buhari’s Claim About The Price Of Crude Oil Between 1999 And 2014?

Akintunde Babatunde · 1 view · May 31, 2018

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.

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