Masquerading oil barons for many years, the crude oil cartel exploiting the country has camouflaged itself so that nobody knows the powers behind the powerful syndicate. People hear and read about the arrest of foot soldiers working for the syndicate, especially captains\crews of light-fingered vessels, and the boys “cooking” crude oil in the ...
When the Group Chief Executive Officer, GCEO, of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, NNPCL, Mr. Mele Kyari, tripped the alarm, last Friday, that the authorities had discovered over 4,800 illegal connections on the national crude oil pipelines, many were shocked, thinking that the media misquoted him. The bolt from the blue was...

