 And in business use, Niger was unable to produce about 22.658 million barrels of crude oil valued at 1.22 trillion in the first quarter of 2022. This is due to its persistent inability to meet the crude oil production quota approved for the country by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. An analysis of data contained in various OPEC reports released in different months this year showed that Nigeria failed to meet its oil production quota in January, February and March 2022. Figures obtained from OPEC showed that the crude oil production quota approved by the Organization for Nigeria in January this year was 1.683 million barrels per day. OPEC also approved 1.701 million barrels per day and 1.718 million barrels per day for Nigeria in the month of February, March 2022. According to data contained in different reports on oil production approvals for its member, it is the highlight of OPEC's latest monthly oil market report for April 2022. It observed that Nigeria's crude oil production from second resources in January 2022 was 1.413 million barrels per day. This dropped to 1.378 million barrels per day in February and plunged further to 1.354 million barrels per day in March 2022. Based on the above figures, Nigeria's crude oil production fell short of OPEC's approved quota in January by 270,000 billion barrels daily. This implies that the country was unable to produce 8.37 million barrels to meet its approved target for the months.