Will payment to government data change development stories of extractives affected communities in Nigeria?

The challenges plaguing Nigeria’s extractives industry are enormous and ranges from lack of proper accountability to patronage and weak governance. While focus had been on instituting modern governance especially for the petroleum sector, not much discussion is ongoing as to...

COVID-19 AND CORRUPTION: WHAT MORE BENEFITS CAN OIL COMMUNITIES HOPE FOR?

With 40% of the population now in poverty, Nigeria’s purse would have been less burdened at this critical time of global economic downturn had the country utilized over $37.4bn paid to its entities by international oil companies between 2014 and 2018 efficiently to develop key...