{"id":5377,"date":"2014-10-02T16:56:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T09:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5377"},"modified":"2014-10-02T16:56:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T09:56:41","slug":"for-the-first-time-us-shuns-nigerias-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/for-the-first-time-us-shuns-nigerias-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"For The First Time, US Shuns Nigeria\u2019s Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The search for alternative energy by the Barack Obama administration in the United States of America (USA) has begun to take a toll on Nigeria\u2019s crude oil export as the US for the first time failed to import a single barrel of crude oil from Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>This troubling scenario experienced in the month of July, according to industry watchers, may spell doom for the Nigerian economy.<\/p>\n<p>Obama\u2019s vigorous search for alternative energy to drive the world\u2019s largest economy poses grave dangers for Nigeria whose economy is highly dependent on revenue from oil.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria used to be the fifth largest exporter of crude oil to the US&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Nigeria News\" href=\"http:\/\/leadership.ng\/news\/385833\/first-time-us-shuns-nigerias-oil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The search for alternative energy by the Barack Obama administration in the United States of America (USA) has begun to take a toll on Nigeria\u2019s crude oil export as the US for the first time failed to import a single barrel of crude oil from Nigeria. This troubling scenario experienced in the month of July, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,4216,4217,4218,4220,257,4687,393,4219,4221,254,1765,4692],"class_list":["post-5377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alternative-energy","tag-barack-obama-administration","tag-crude-oil-export","tag-dependent-on-revenue-from-oil","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian-economy","tag-oil","tag-south-africa-today","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}