He has developed important foreign holdings in cooperation with Nigerian former Oil Minister Rilwanu Lukman and Geneva-based financier Gabriel Katri...
Vol 44 No 22 |
- GHANA
- NIGERIA
These contracts were cancelled on the advice of Obasanjo's former Special Advisor on Oil Rilwanu Lukman who resigned on 7 October after opposing the government's stand on petroleum price increases (AC Vol 44 No 20)...
Rilwanu Lukman's sudden resignation on 7 October as Special Advisor on Oil to Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo is likely to trigger other high-level departures as the crisis in the oil sector mounts...
The reshuffle even surprised the Board Chairperson Rilwanu Lukman the President's special oil advisor...
Obasanjo's Petroleum Affairs Advisor Rilwanu Lukman is tipped as Ambassador to the United States to be replaced by Funsho Kupolokun; the Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Gaius Obaseki is expected go some time in the next year and has finally agreed to back another candidate from Edo State Greg Ero as his replacement...
Meanwhile Obasanjo and his oil advisor veteran former Oil Minister and OPEC ex-Secretary General Rilwanu Lukman remain strong supporters of OPEC...
Angola wants to keep its relations with Nigeria sweet; last October Dos Santos talked to Obasanjo's oil advisor Rilwanu Lukman about possible US moves in São Tomé...
Obasanjo and his oil advisor Rilwanu Lukman are prepared to sell off the refineries and domestic fuel distribution companies as well as ending the subsidy of domestic fuel prices...
Foreign traders and Nigerian middlemen are focusing on his special oil advisor Rilwanu Lukman whom they believe more sympathetic to their complaints about the NNPC reforms...
Rilwanu Lukman a former Oil Minister and currently Secretary General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries was appointed presidential advisor on petroleum and energy...