DISPATCHES Vol 63 No 17 | UNITED NATIONSAFRICAN UNIONCLIMATE CHANGE Fight over Africa’s fossil fuels intensifies 9th August 2022 Climate negotiators push back against AU plan for common position on gas and nuclear energy playing a ‘critical role’ in short to medium term The African Union’s plan to ramp up oil and gas production launched at a preparatory meeting with national negotiating teams has triggered a row with climate experts and green ener... READ FOR FREE
Vol 46 No 15 | NIGERIA Notes on a scandal 22nd July 2005 Wojciech Chodan, an executive with Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR), has emerged as the Samuel Pepys of the Nigeria gas scandal. At many key meetings, Chodan too...
Vol 50 No 5 | NIGERIAUNITED STATESBRITAIN Tesler trapped 6th March 2009 Officers from Britain’s Serious Fraud Office arrested lawyer Jeffrey Tesler, 60, at his offices in Tottenham in London on 5 March in a move that will widen the international invest...
Vol 51 No 16 | NIGERIA Abuja takes Halliburton to court 6th August 2010 President Goodluck Jonathan's government is taking on the United States' oil services giant Halliburton and its Nigerian associates for organising bribes to secure contracts for th...
Vol 45 No 13 | NIGERIA Gasmen 25th June 2004 General Ibrahim Babangida, Head of State, August 1985-August 1993. Presided over the formation of the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas joint venture but insisted the state-owned Nige...