Africa’s biggest oil producer has become a by-word for corruption. Despite oil sales of more than two million barrels a day, living standards for ordinary Nigerians have been declining steadily.

In the final programme of this series, Maurice Walsh asks whether economists and politicians now know enough to benefit from the tragic waste of Nigeria’s oil riches.

Can these lessons help new oil producers avoid the pitfalls of the past, and is there hope that even Nigeria might transform its remaining oil and gas reserves from a curse to blessing?

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