[Premium Times] And this is simply because the chicken has come home to roost, not because it is desirable to subsidize a product that needn't be subsidised Well, some people may argue that because Nigeria is a crude oil producing nation then it is good to expect the citizens not to pay what other people pay for refined petrol and other products, but crude oil is not as novel as it was when we used to think that way. Many more African nations have since discovered some crude - Niger Republic, Chad, Cameroon, Ghana, Uganda