From Oloibiri to Bonny: My Life and Insights from Rising and Leading in Nigeria’s Petroleum Industry

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Godswill S. Ihetu joined the Nigerian petroleum industry as a Shell-BP trainee technician at 18 (1959) and retired aged 59 (1999) as a Group Executive Director, Engineering and Technical Services with NNPC; he went from ‘shop floor’ level to top management. This makes him the most qualified to reveal, in this full-career biography, the early government missteps before the incorporation of NNPC and the truth behind the ‘missing ₦2.8 billion’ rumour of 1979. It offers his opinion on the DPR’s delayed autonomy, how the overbearing government stifled NNPC’s growth, ‘borrowed’ funds that delayed the NLNG project, and accepted up to $152 million in bribes from Halliburton and its affiliates, leading to the prosecution of its company executives in the US. From Oloibiri to Bonny tells all, in clear, easy-to-read narration.