Akpomera, Eddy. “International Crude Oil Theft: Elite Predatory Tendencies in Nigeria.” Review of African Political Economy 42, no. 143 (2015): 156–65. Http://www.jstor.org/stable/24858333.

Aside from religious terrorism, Nigeria is a country that faces a lot of challenges to its economy, much of them stemming from the rampant corruption in the country. Nigeria also has an international reputation for crude oil theft which poses a serious threat to the country’s economy. What is more disturbing is that the perpetrators are the elites in the country both in and out of the government who conspire to carry out the crime. This paper throws more light on the critical issue of the theft of crude oil and provide suggestions to deal with the cancer that's eating away at the country’s dominant source of wealth.

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