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Lies, politics and Nigeria's great rumour mill
There is only one industry in Nigeria which is completely immune to the vagaries of the national economy and the well-oiled machine of the government security and intelligence services. It is big, it is strong, it never sleeps and it is unimaginably creative - but it is invisible. I am talking of the Nigerian rumour mill.
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After years as a major gang leader in the Niger Delta, Tom had accepted a presidential offer of amnesty and was due at a disarmament ceremony in the oil hub of Port Harcourt. But...
The man who would tame lagos
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Larry Plake was just outside the control tower on his way to bed aboard the Cheyenne, an oil barge anchored six miles off the coast, when he heard the shots. A veteran rig worker for Global Industries, Plake, a Texan, had just finished his evening shift and was in a bad mood