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Nigeria: 100 million barrels of oil unaccounted for in 2019

FILE PHOTO: Cars queue to buy petrol at the NNPC Mega petrol station in Abuja, Nigeria March 19, 2020. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde/File Photo

Abuja, Nigeria – More than 100 million barrels of crude were unaccounted for by Nigeria’s state oil company in 2019, its lawmakers have discovered while reviewing a report from the country’s auditor-general.

According to local media reports on Wednesday, the findings were recently discovered during a joint session of the committees on public accounts in both houses of parliament, to evaluate the report.

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