Today he is again at the sharp end of an initiative to transform the way Nigeria conducts its oil and gas business, conceived at the highest level in the land and central to President Umaru Yar'Adua's political agenda.
In the 1990s, as now, the focus was on the machinations of a few well-connected mandarins to siphon off huge funds from the state oil company - Nigeria's sacred milch cow.
Attempts
