As Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari visits the country, little might be said in public about a yesteryear multi-million-shilling 30,000 barrels of crude oil per day deal that ended up in smoke. This remains one of the most opaque deals ever signed with Nigeria and the whereabouts of barrels of oil worth billions is still unknown. A recent report by an international energy watchdog, the Natural Resource Governance Institute, has called for an end to government-to-government (g-to-g) deals, which, it says, are “crowded with middlemen” and asks the Buhari government to stop sales to smaller non-refining countries. Kenya is named in the report as among the countries that lifted oil consignments from Nigeria. The report says this was “characterised by secrecy, undue complexity, and an absence of oversight”. One experienced trader is quoted in the report as saying: “When it comes to allocating cargoes for sale, bilaterals are the low […]