The Norwegian state oil giant contested its case in the Nigerian commercial capital’s Court of Appeal on Monday in a delayed hearing to appeal an earlier judgment against the company in the long-running legal row with consultant and medical doctor Dr John Abebe.
Abebe was hired by Statoil for much of the 1990s, under an agreement with his firm Inducon Nigeria, to advise the company on its upstream business in the West African country, reportedly handing over $2.2
