Nigeria: Despite Powers, N'Assembly Fails to Sanitise Oil Sector, Says Report

18 February 2018

Abuja — A new report called the 2017 Benchmarking Exercise Report (BER), published by the Nigeria Natural Resource Charter (NNRC), has disclosed that the National Assembly failed to use its constitutional powers to push for and sustain transparency in the oil industry.

The report, which was released last Thursday in Abuja, specifically indicated that legislative inefficiencies had made it extremely difficult for the legislators and their relevant committees to undertake far-reaching reforms that could clean up sleaze in Nigeria's oil sector.

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