Inefficiencies in Nigeria’s oil & gas space
08 August 2017 |
2:30 pm
Nigeria has lost close to $60 billion to the non-enforcement of the terms of the Production Sharing Contracts signed between the Federal Government and the International oil companies since 1993.
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