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Procurement Fraud for Nigeria’s Largest Oil Company

Vulnerabilities in the public procurement process for Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) are being exposed in a recent bid.

The public procurement process in Nigeria forbids any form of insider dealing or exploiting information that is not made public.

However, a recent bid for slop oil seems to indicate that two of the three bidders are from companies with the same directors.

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