More than 20 people are to be summoned to the Nigerian probe including: Lesar; Gilbert Chagouri a leading Lebanese businessman under the Sani Abacha regime; Ely Calil a London-based Lebanese businessman embroiled in a legal battle with Equatorial Guinea's government over allegations of his involvement in a coup attempt in March; former Chair of the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) company Mohammadu Dikko Yusufu; two former Oil Ministers Don Etiebet and Dan Etete; and Tesler who has admitted receiving $140 mn...
Dan Etete Oil Minister 1995-1998...
May 1997: NNPC representatives on the NLNG board complained of demands from Oil Minister Dan Etete for more sub-contracts to Niger Delta-based companies...
Van Ruymbeke who was already investigating a complex case involving former Nigerian Oil Minister Dan Etete and the transferred ownership of an oil block in Nigeria was selected to lead the investigation into Nigeria's LNG project...
Ishaya Bamaiyi and leading oil trader Mike Adenuga); 243 – Ozeko Energy Resources (Chief of General Staff Vice-Admiral Mike Akhigbe); 244 – Totex Oil (Brigadier Anthony Ukpo and Texaco); 245 -–Malabo Oil (former Oil Minister Dan Etete who uses his Ghanaian name Kweku Amafegha on company documents and senior diplomat 'Alhaji Aminu'); 247 – Heritage Oil and Gas; 248 – Zebra Oil and Gas (trader Leni Adesanya of Lenoil has approached Mobil); 249 – Oil and Gas Petroleum Limited; 314 – Paragon Group of Companies (Prince Oladoyin); 315 – Lagoon Petroleum (Gilbert and Jack Chagoury)...
He sacked the mercurial Oil Minister Dan Etete and ordered the technocratic Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Dalhatu Bayero to reorganise the NNPC and stop the leakages from Nigeria's main ‘cash crop'...
The Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Dalhatu Bayero has we hear been given rights to hire and fire without reference to his political chief Oil Minister Dan Etete...
Another important contingent in Abuja consisted of oil traders who had been hoping to finalise their short-term lifting contracts with Oil Minister Dan Etete (whose future is in doubt)...
Perhaps most extraordinary are the survival skills of Oil Minister Dan Etete despite being publicly upbraided by Finance Minister Anthony Ani and Lagos State Administrator Col...
The surprise reappointment of Dan Etete as Oil Minister hasn't helped Ani's efforts to regularise the financial management of the country's biggest export earner...
