Nigeria Law
Companies of Record

State oil · military · Founded 1977 (NNPC); 2022 (NNPC Ltd under PIA)

NNPC / NNPC Ltd

Status: Operating (NNPC Ltd).

Why it is on record

The state oil corporation at the centre of Nigeria's political economy; its 2022 conversion to a limited company under the Petroleum Industry Act 2021 is a structural landmark.

Record held

Africa's largest national oil company by revenue.

Accountability

NNPC is the single most cross-referenced entity in this platform's Looted Funds and Oil Boom records (Abacha-era CBN/NNPC withdrawals; subsidy regime; unremitted revenues per NEITI audits). Those records apply with full force here.

Cross-references

  • · NNPC entries — Looted Funds
  • · Oil Boom failures
Methodology

Tier 1 · primary

Courts. Gazettes. National archives.

Tier 2 · corroborating

OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.

Redline

Wikipedia is never a source.