Nigeria Earned Billions From Crude Oil in 53 Years - Report

The National Bureau of Statistics said a total 32,70 billion barrels of crude oil valued at approximately U.S.$ 330 billion has been produced between 1961 and 2014. Despite, the huge resources earned from petroleum, the country has not been unable to utilize the money to improve the lives of its citizens, neither has the country used it to develop the economy.

Barrels of oil.

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