Nigeria’s Oil Losses Highlighted at NEITI Board Retreat
During the opening ceremony of the 2024 NEITI board retreat in Lagos, the Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Ogbonnaya Orji, unveiled alarming statistics revealing significant losses in Nigeria’s oil sector. According to NEITI, Nigeria lost 619.7 million barrels of oil valued at $46.16 billion over a 12-year period from 2009 to 2020. Additionally, between 2009 and 2018, the country lost $1.84 billion worth of petroleum products from its refineries, equivalent