Oil
FACT-CHECK: Nigeria Began Exporting Crude Oil in 1958, Decades Before Gov. AbdulRazaq’s NOPA Oil Services
CEII brief
https://factcheckafrica.net/ reported on 5 Nov 2026: FACT-CHECK: Nigeria Began Exporting Crude Oil in 1958, Decades Before Gov. AbdulRazaq’s NOPA Oil Services.
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Crude benchmarks move budgets, currencies and inflation in producer and importer countries alike. For economies such as Nigeria, where fuels dominate exports, production and refining decisions move the whole economy.
85.9% of Nigeria’s merchandise exports were fuels in 2025Countries in this story
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