The international rehabilitation of billionaire businessman Gilbert Chagoury had seemed complete...
' TINUBU'S FRENCH CONNECTION President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's relationship with Gilbert Chagoury started on a chilly note after the demise of General Sani Abacha in June 1998...
HOW CHAGOURY RETURNED TO PRIME TIME IN ABUJA For much of the past decade billionaire businessman Gilbert Chagoury kept a low profile in Nigeria...
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Businessman and co-investor in the Eko Atlantic project Gilbert Chagoury a financial advisor to military leader General Sani Abacha and his family was seated next to Tinubu's son Seyi at the inauguration...
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Abacha's 'financial advisor' Gilbert Chagoury a billionaire Franco-Lebanese businessman followed a similar trajectory to re-emerge as a leading player on the Lagos corporate scene and also as a close ally of Tinubu's...
The ecological extravagance of the project is a good fit with the tawdry history of the Nigerian political elite’s relations with Eko Atlantic’s main promoter Gilbert Chagoury...
Obasanjo who had been gaoled under Abacha and was the subject of multiple assassination attempts commissioned by the former military leader never really warmed to Gilbert Chagoury and his brother Jack Chagoury...
Obasanjo who had been gaoled under Abacha and was the subject of multiple assassination attempts commissioned by the former military leader never really warmed to Gilbert Chagoury and his brother Jack Chagoury...
Still more significant is the international support garnered by Los Angeles-based Gilbert Chagoury...
Abacha's Lebanese financial advisor Gilbert Chagoury and the Swiss-Israeli banker Gabriel Katri used their sway with international institutions to open accounts for the Abacha brothers using false names...
Abacha’s advisors Gilbert and Jack Chagoury also of Lebanese origin have grand social ambitions in the USA: they were listed as big financiers of its Democratic Party...
Abdulsalami Abubakar awarded eleven other blocks to senior military officers in favour at the time and Abacha's business partners Gilbert and Jack Chagoury (AC Vol 40 No 7)...
We hear Gilbert Chagoury was party to the Danjuma-Abacha negotiations over Block 130 and has maintained an interest in the Block (he was an agent for Total in Nigeria) and was also brought into the CNOOC-Nigeria arrangements...
Consortia in the Dorchester With company officials ushered into meetings by Lebanese businessmen Ely Calil (who as Technip's agent had long promoted the LNG project in Nigeria) and Gilbert Chagoury at London's Dorchester Hotel Etiebet paints a picture of extravagant confusion among the rival consortia and their associates...
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)...
Curiously Yusufu had a business association dating back several years with Gilbert and Jack Chagoury who are now regarded as Abacha'sclosestbusinessassociates...
