I have worked in Nigeria on occasion, seeing as my employer has a presence just about anywhere hydrocarbons can conceivably be coerced from the ground. Several

I have worked in Nigeria on occasion, seeing as my employer has a presence just about anywhere hydrocarbons can conceivably be coerced from the ground. Several of the local companies I worked with had front companies in other countries to avoid being dismissed as scammers off-hand - even by fellow Nigerian enterprises... My local agent once lamented that "The world mistreats us Nigerians; it is such a shame that 99% bad apples give all Nigerians a bad name..." :-)