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...
They resent the concentration of government influence within the Abacha circle either in the family or with Gilbert and Jack Chagoury...