The Oil Curse Was Drafted Into Law: How Nigeria’s Petroleum Laws Turned National Wealth into Private Fortunes by Lawson Akhigbe with HistoricCapital

Dan Etete For decades Nigerians have been told that corruption in the oil industry is the product of weak institutions, bad leadership and poor governance. That explanation has become so familiar that many accept it without question. Yet the deeper problem may not be governance failure alone. The more troubling possibility is that parts of …