Nigeria Law
Oil Boom — Failures & Good Spending

Obasanjo II2003 — 07Documented failure· $16bn+ committed· Chapter I · Money

Power Sector Reform Spend (NIPP)

National Integrated Power Project. $16bn+ committed; later House investigations and Justice Elias Report queried completion and value-for-money on multiple plants.

Between 2003 and 2007 the FGN committed $16bn+ to the National Integrated Power Project (NIPP) — 10 thermal stations and associated transmission/gas pipelines. The 2008 Ndudi Elumelu House Probe documented widespread non-completion. By 2012 only ~25% of nameplate capacity was operational.

Sources

  • · House of Representatives Power Probe Report (2008)
  • · BPE NIPP Privatisation Documents (2013)

What it cost — political & economic reality

The political and economic reality

Nigeria in 2005: who was in charge, the cabinet of the day, the GDP, and the crises that defined the period.

President · Fourth Republic

Chief Olusegun Obasanjo

1999–2007· PDP

National reality

Return to civilian rule, 29 May 1999. Telecoms deregulation (2001) — GSM revolution. Paris Club exit, October 2005 ($30 bn debt relief, Okonjo-Iweala). Pension Reform 2004. EFCC established 2003.

Crises of the period

  • Third Term agenda defeated 2006
  • Niger Delta militancy intensifies
  • ASUU strikes; Sharia introduction in 12 northern states

GDP (World Bank)

$59 bn (1999) → $166 bn (2007)

Cabinet (selected portfolios)

  • Finance

    Adamu Ciroma (1999–2003); Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (2003–06)

  • Education

    Tunde Adeniran; Babalola Borishade; Fabian Osuji; Chinwe Obaji; Oby Ezekwesili

  • Health

    Prof. ABC Nwosu

Source: Federal Gazette 1999–2007; CBN; World Bank WDI

Methodology

Tier 1 · primary

Courts. Gazettes. National archives.

Tier 2 · corroborating

OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.

Redline

Wikipedia is never a source.