Nigeria’s catastrophic fuel crisis has a straightforward solution

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Wise petrostates seek to turn oil revenues into human capital. By investing in better clinics, schools and other public services, they nurture healthy, well-educated citizens who will thrive long after the oil runs dry. Nigeria offers its people cheap petrol instead. Nearly half the government’s oil revenues are wasted on petrol subsidies—2.3% of GDP, or four times the health budget. It should scrap this subsidy, a hard step that could be made politically easier by the start of petrol production last week at a huge refinery owned by Aliko Dangote, Nigeria’s richest man.

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