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Beyond Above-Ground Risk: The Relationships That Decide Nigeria’s Oil

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The barrels beneath the Niger Delta were never the problem. The problem has always been above the ground, in the relationships nobody thought to put a price on.



By Michael Kabi



The air-conditioning in the Port Harcourt hotel had been losing its argument with the afternoon for the better part of an hour, and still the men around the table kept their heavy suits on, shirts starched to the point of armour. Beyond the tinted glass the perimeter fence held back a familiar scene: young men on ok

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