Vol 45 No 20 | NIGERIA Day of the locusts 8th October 2004 Asari and his foes have pulled back from the brink in the Niger Delta but the threat remains Mujahid Dokubo Asari's 'Operation Locust Feast' was supposed to begin on Independence Day, 1 October, and was effectively a declaration of war on President Olusegun Obasanjo's government and...
Vol 45 No 19 | NIGERIAUNITED STATES Swelling the great gas balloon 24th September 2004 In camera testimony to a French judge drags more names through the Nigeriagate scandal Halliburton, the United States' oil services company, was the prime mover behind a US$180 million slush fund linked to Nigeria's $10 billion gas export plant, according to several...
Vol 45 No 19 | NIGERIAUNITED STATES The Tesler tapes 24th September 2004 Operating out of a modest solicitor's office in the north London suburb of Tottenham, Jeffrey Tesler cuts an improbable figure as the multi-millionaire agent arbitrating among heads of...
Vol 45 No 18 | NIGERIA Guns, gangs and oil 10th September 2004 Troops are moving into Port Harcourt, the oil capital, to suppress the gangster rebels Last week, a dozen customers at a restaurant at 10 Warri Street, Port Harcourt, were machine-gunned to death at their tables by a gang of youths, who then...
Vol 45 No 18 | NIGERIA On the bribe trail 10th September 2004 Questions are mounting about the involvement of United States' oil services company Halliburton in the distribution of US$180 million of allegedly corrupt payments on a $10 billion gas...
Vol 45 No 15 | NIGERIA Delta damages 21st July 2004 By helicopter and canoe, people flee the violence; oil companies count the cost Death and destruction in the Niger Delta is driving ChevronTexaco and its insurers into a legal battle. After attacks on its oil wells and pipelines in April 2003,...
Vol 45 No 14 | NIGERIAOIL AND GAS The net widens 9th July 2004 Officials in Abuja are intensifying a probe into commissions of more than US$180 million on a gas export plant following Africa Confidential's report last month that Nigeria's biggest...
Vol 45 No 13 | NIGERIA Gas leak 25th June 2004 International investigations into corruption allegations could prove politically explosive Allegations that contractors building Nigeria's fast expanding Liquefied Natural Gas complex have paid over US$180 million in illegal commissions have prompted parallel investigations in France, Nigeria and the...
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 Nigerian National Petroleum...
Vol 45 No 13 | NIGERIA Gas timetable 25th June 2004 17 May 1989: Incorporation of Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited. NLNG Board with representatives from the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Shell Gas BV, ENI International (formerly...