Nigeria's Implementation of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

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This report looks into Nigeria's implementation of the EITI, a global initiative that promotes revenue transparency in company payments and government revenues from oil, gas and mining. It investigates whether EITI is really working for the country since Former President Olusegun Obasanjo launched Nigeria's in 2004.

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Nicholas Shaxson is a journalist who writes regularly for the Financial Times, The Economist, African Energy, and the insider newsletter Africa Confidential. He is an associate fellow with the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in London, and a world authority on the politics and economics of the oil-producing nations of the Gulf of Guinea. He has been covering the African oil trade for the last fifteen years.