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With entire industries across the country currently shut down due to the Coronavirus, one source which had continued to generate the much-needed cash and foreign exchange for the Nigerian government was the sale of crude oil, albeit at lower prices . This week, prices declined even further, causing Nigeria’s Bonny Light crude oil blend to sell for around $12 and $13 per barrel. Despite the low price of crude oil, Nigeria currently has about 10 million barrels of unsold crude oil, and traders expect this number to increase in the following weeks and in the month of May. These low prices (compared with prices from 12 weeks before) and the inability to find buyers for the 10 million barrels at such low prices can be traced to the Coronavirus pandemic which is still spreading across the globe. With factories shut down, and transportation and other economic activities put on hold across Europe and Asia (some of Nigeria’s major buyers), there simply is not enough demand to match oil ...
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