Oil sector woes responsible for recession –Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday lamented that Nigeria has been hit by the misfortunes of the oil industry.

The President spoke while inaugurating the governing boards of three parastatals of the Ministry of Petroleum Resources: the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation; Nigerian Content Development Monitoring Board and the Nigeria Nuclear Regulatory Authority, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

All the boards have the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, as their chairman.

Buhari noted that the boards were inaugurated at a time when the global petroleum industry is witnessing a downturn in purchase.

This, he regretted, has also translated into dwindling production by most producer nations.

“Nigeria has been hit by the misfortunes of oil industry but several countries have been hit much harder,” he said.

Source: punch