The project is controversial because the contract was awarded without competitive bidding to Gilbert Chagoury the Lebanese billionaire and financial advisor to junta leader General Sani Abacha...
The fact that several of Abacha's allies Budget Minister Atiku Bagudu and billionaire contractor Gilbert Chagoury are now close to Tinubu tells its own story say the activists...
Over $15m was spent on a new mansion for the Vice President Kashim Shettima while Abacha's consigliere and now Tinubu confidant Gilbert Chagoury has been awarded a $13bn contract without any competitive bidding to build a superhighway from Lagos to Calabar (AC Vol 65 No 8 Abacha consigliere in storm over $11 billion superhighway linking Lagos and Calabar)...
The award of a no-bid $13 billion contract for a coastal road – on which the National Assembly approved payments of $700m upfront – to Hitech construction owned by close Tinubu associate Gilbert Chagoury and family is seen as particularly provocative by activists (AC Vol 65 No 8 Abacha consigliere in storm over $11 billion superhighway linking Lagos and Calabar)...
Last year he awarded the $13 billion Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway contract to Gilbert Chagoury's Hitech without competitive bidding but on the express orders of the President (AC Vol 65 No 8 Abacha consigliere in storm over $11 billion superhighway linking Lagos and Calabar)...
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...