Benedict Peters

The indictment against Alison-Madueke names Benedict Peters as part of the criminal conspiracy...

The indictment names as part of the criminal conspiracy Benedict Peters a Nigerian businessman who has blamed bitter and unsubstantiated personal and corporate vendettas by rivals for a raft of separate allegations of impropriety...

Controversy has raged over the balance of responsibility for what Sentamu once described as 'environmental genocide' between the IOCs operating since 1958 including Shell and ENI and local companies especially Benedict Peters's Aiteo which in 2016 bought OML29 where pipeline spills have continued (AC Vol 63 No 9 Oil spills and theft spike as big oil goes offshore)...

The spill came from a field operated by Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production Company which is run by the ubiquitous billionaire Benedict Peters...

Peters expands his portfolio Benedict Peters the managing director of Nigeria's Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production Company has courted much controversy for his dealings in his home country and Ghana where he is currently based...

The operating company there Aiteo – run by Nigerian businessman Benedict Peters – had admitted to a spill of 3 000 barrels of crude oil far from the two-million-barrel-spill alleged by Bayelsa governor Douye Diri (AC Vol 58 No 7 The great oil chase)...

Africa Confidential understands that Frontier Health is owned by the family of Nigerian oil billionaire Benedict Peters via a complex chain of companies registered ultimately in Dominica...

Frontiers is owned by one of Nigeria's more colourful oil magnates Benedict Peters who has been based in Ghana after leaving Nigeria after Muhammadu Buhari's election in 2015 (AC Vol 58 No 7 The great oil chase & Vol 59 No 4 'Feigned lawsuit' bid to foil US)...

Where there has been controversy – such as over the award of an airport Covid-19 testing contract to high-profile Nigerian oilman Benedict Peters – it has not gained traction (AC Vol 59 No 4 'Feigned lawsuit' bid to foil US)...

Frontier registered in the Dominican Republic is owned by Nigerian oil billionaire Benedict Peters who moved to Ghana after President Muhammadu Buhari's government came to power in Abuja in 2015...

Other leading local operators are the privately-owned Eroton whose chairman Onajite Okoloko was one of the founding partners in Oando and runs the Notore fertiliser plant in Rivers State; Neconde which acquired fields from Shell; and Aiteo owned by Benedict Peters who was reputedly close to the former Oil Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke now under investigation in the UK (AC Vol 58 No 7 There will be blood...