WS MoreOrLess: Oil
More or Less
BBC
4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2015
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari said a million barrels of the country’s oil were stolen per day. Is he right? Ruth Alexander asks Peter Cunliffe-Jones of Africa Check. And, does 13% of the world’s undiscovered oil lie in the Arctic? Producers: Keith Moore and Phoebe Keane.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the short edition of Morales, first broadcast on the BBC World Service. |
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| 0:18.0 | Hello and welcome to Morales on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Ruth Alexander. |
| 0:27.0 | This week's show has a theme. |
| 0:30.0 | Oil. |
| 0:39.0 | We'll be talking about the amount of oil left in the ground later. |
| 0:42.0 | But first, Nigeria's president, Mahamdu Bihari, who was elected in May, |
| 0:47.0 | recently announced that he personally would take control of Nigeria's oil ministry |
| 0:52.0 | in an attempt to crack down on corruption. |
| 0:54.0 | An issue I investigated in the inquiry this week. |
| 0:58.0 | The amount of Nigerian oil that's being stolen has been subject to speculation for a while now. |
| 1:04.0 | President Bihari said in July that some former government ministers were stealing |
| 1:08.0 | about one million barrels a day. |
| 1:11.0 | That sounds like a lot of oil. |
| 1:13.0 | But is he right? |
| 1:14.0 | No, is the short answer. |
| 1:16.0 | This is Peter Kunliffe-Jones, the director of Fact Checking Website, Africa Check. |
| 1:21.0 | On the same day, he also said around 250,000 barrels. |
| 1:26.0 | I think that's the more reliable figure. |
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