Guns, Millitants and Big Oil: My Week in Nigeria
September 10th 2009 Pre-emptive Saffa
It was ten o’clock in the evening, I was at home, I’d had a beer or two. I was just watching an old TV show with a friend when the phone rang, and I picked up to a very up-front South African man.
After a few brief pleasantries he got straight to the business of my security briefing and proceeded to inform me of the myriad ways in which I was likely to get blackmai
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