It has come to be that any time the Niger Delta region coughs, the entire nation catches cold. This is because the entire global oil economy would shake violently too. Nigeria still relies on oil and gas from the region to fund its annual budget, now over N7 trillion. The 2017 budget is hinged on 2.
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Ignatius Chukwu
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