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Nigeria's Foreign Investment Policy and Artisans’ Underground Oil Economy: Who Wins in the Niger Delta Region?
The paradigm shift in the political economy of the crude oil–rich Niger Delta region is the government drive to encourage new modular refineries by foreign investors. This policy is colliding with the underground oil economy with widespread illegal refineries by local artisans in the region utilising stolen crude oil siphoned from vandalised pipelines. The dangerous distillation practices in the wetland communities have put serious pressure on Nigeria's domestic supply levels of petroleum products, revenue earnings and environmental spoilage. This paper presents an analysis of the unwholesome …
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