The Price of Modern Development
Machine Guns and Street Protests: The War Against Resource Depletion
The machine guns, poised on the crash barriers, are trained on my hips from both sides, five feet away. One false move and my midsection would be riddled with bullets. I have a meeting at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, the national oil company of Nigeria. This is one of five security checkpoints to enter the headquarters building; vehicle parking, sign-in with two-factor confirmation of advance invitation, luggage check, identification check, and X-ray machine. It is said that 90 percent of the proceeds of this national oil company never make it to the public coffers. They are siphoned off by every conceivable scam by ...
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