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Vol 61 No 15

Published 23rd July 2020


Nigeria

The shake-up that didn’t happen

Plummeting prices prompted a radical plan to restructure the state oil company – then the vested interests fought back

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and several of the country’s most senior ministers recommended hard-hitting reforms to rein in the sprawling and notoriously unaccountable state oil company earlier this year – only for the measures to be shelved, Africa Confidential can reveal.

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