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Oil boom expands federal ambition

The global oil price shock increased Nigerian revenues and expanded state-led projects, imports, and patronage.

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1973

Oil boom expands federal ambition

The global oil price shock increased Nigerian revenues and expanded state-led projects, imports, and patronage.

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The global oil price shock increased Nigerian revenues and expanded state-led projects, imports, and patronage. The boom matters because it helped entrench oil dependence and a federal revenue-sharing politics still visible today. Source to strengthen: World Bank/CBN historical data needed.

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