Sentences with phrase «nigerian oil block»

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While justifying his call for allocation of oil block to cancer treatment, he said a Mevavoltage cancer therapy machine is available for 33 million Nigerians as against four to about 200,000 Australians, adding, «most patients have little or no access to Radiation Oncology services».

«Some noticeably problematic amendments are absent from this bill, such as allowing the oil minister to decide what to do with any surplus or allowing the Nigerian president to allocate oil blocks for exploration.

The oil block was sold in 2012 to the multinational oil companies Shell and ENI for over a billion dollars with the Nigerian government acting as a «straw man».

Court order mandates the return of oil block OPL245, for which Shell and Eni paid $ 1.1 billion to a company secretly owned by a former Nigerian oil minister.

In 2011, Shell and Italian oil giant Eni paid $ 1.1 billion for an oil block, knowing the money would go to a front company secretly owned by a notorious former Nigerian oil minister, Dan Etete, who had been convicted for money - laundering.

New, leaked internal emails seen by Global Witness and Finance Uncovered show that Shell's most senior decision - makers knew that the money they paid for oil block OPL 245 in 2011 would go to convicted money launderer and ex-Nigerian oil minister Dan Etete — rather than to benefit the Nigerian people.

Debt recovery • Responsible for the return of US$ 161 million signature bonus paid for Nigerian exploration blocks by the Nigerian government to an exploration company; • Recovery of unpaid fees for an oil service company in East Africa as a consultant to Smithfield Partners solicitors;