Nigeria's Implementation of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

by Nicholas Shaxson

This report looks into Nigerias 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 Nigerias in 2004.

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Shaxson was born in Malawi and has lived at various times in India, Brazil, England, Lesotho, Spain, Angola, South Africa, Germany and the Netherlands. Since 1993 he has written on global business and politics for the Financial Times, Reuters, the Economist and its sister publication the Economist Intelligence Unit, International Affairs, Foreign Affairs, American Interest, the BBC, Africa Confidential, African Energy, and others.

Shaxson currently lives with his partner and their two children in Zürich, Switzerland.