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Nigeria: Power shortages

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, Nigeria, Development, Environment

Black Star Journal picks up on a report in a Nigerian newspaper detailing how many residents of the country's chief oil-producing region, Bayelsa, have little to show for the rape of their natural resources by foreign multinationals [1]. “The state, home to one of Nigeria's largest deposits of crude oil, doesn't even have electricity a half century after the ‘godsend’ black gold was discovered there,” he writes.