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The workings of billionaire Benedict Peters' expanding galaxy

Nigerian business tycoon Benedict Peters, the founder and chairman of Aiteo, has created a web of entities to run his ever-more diverse portfolio of businesses. [...]

Published on 17/03/2020 at 04:30 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Africa Cup of Nations
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AFC, Ecobank and Shell loan for OML 29, a $2bn thorn in Aiteo's side

The Nigerian billionaire Benedict Peters' Aiteo is being hounded by its creditors wanting payment on a massive loan it took out in 2014 to purchase OML 29. All attempts at an amicable settlement have failed after many lengthy delays, mostly due to the pandemic.

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Guinea
Nigerian mogul Benedict Peters eyes Guinea's iron deposits

Bravura, the oil magnate's mining branch, is establishing itself in mineral-rich Guinea, with a particular focus on its iron.

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Benedict Peters, founder of the oil company Aiteo.

In Focus | Angola, Ghana
Covid tests, an unexpected windfall for Israeli-Swiss group Mitrelli, China's BGI and Nigeria's Peters family

At a cost of $150-300 per passenger, obligatory Covid-19 tests have become the basis for a thriving new business at Africa's major airports. A handful of companies have succeeded in getting a share of this extremely lucrative market.

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Nigeria, United States
Benedict Peters teams up with arch-conservative Steve Bannon to cosy up to Buhari

Nigerian billionnaire Benedict Peters has joined a conservative lobby group that's very close to the White House. His aim is to make himself indispensable to Abuja, which has blacklisted him.

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The ghost of Enron returns to haunt yacht once owned by former oil minister Alison-Madueke's trader pals

The Galactica Star super-yacht was a symbol of the excesses of former Nigerian oil minister Alison-Madueke, who Nigeria is trying to have extradited from London. It is now at the heart of a battle between Washington, Abuja and a surprise ghost from the past, former Enron group subsidiary Enron Nigeria Power Holdings.

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The Galactica Star. The proceeds of the yacht's sale are claimed by Nigeria, the US and former Enron men.

Nigeria
OML 29: Aiteo's Benedict Peters left in the lurch by IS45

After the departure of his long-term partner, the billionaire has been forced to find new service firms to work with.

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Nigeria
Swap deals: Kachikwu's great refinery failure

This could be the last days at the ministry for the secretary of state. If he does go, one of his biggest regrets will be Nigerian traders are still hooked on swap deals.

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Nigeria
Aiteo questions path ahead with OML 29 expiry looming

Once the country's favourite oil man during the Goodluck Jonathan years, Benedict Peters now needs to quickly rustle together funds to pay off his creditors and the Nigerian state.

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Nigeria
Who are part of Aiteo boss Benedict Peters' inner circle?

Founder and chairman of Nigerian trading firm Aiteo, operator of the highly prolific OML 29 in the Niger delta, Benedict [...]

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Aiteo boss Benedict Peters steps up to handle crippling debt

Trading house Aiteo, which had prospered under Goodluck Jonathan's tenure, has recently had to start making hefty repayments to creditors that had helped the firm buy the giant OML 29. Aiteo founder and CEO, Nigerian businessman Benedict Peters, is using [.

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Nigeria
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How Buhari hands NNPC's crude to those in his debt

In addition to international groups like Glencore, Trafigura, Total and BP, the list of 18 Nigerian firms that won allocations of NNPC’s crude - 32,000 bpd or one cargo per month - for 2017/2018 looks like a clever geopolitical share-out [.

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Some applaud and others lament Madueke’s departure

Muhammadu Buhari’s victory in Nigeria’s recent presidential election will result in the departure a strongest card in outgoing president Goodluck Jonathan’s hand: the controversial petroleum resources minister Diezani Alison-Madueke. While some traders who became oil explorers raked in riches during [.

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Spotlight | Nigeria
Who are the lucky winners in swap contract lottery?

Largely unnoticed in Nigeria where the media and politicians are riveted on the presidential election on Feb. 14, a unit of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp (NNPC), Pipelines and Product Marketing Co (PPMC) renewed swap contracts in early January that [.

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Nigeria
The workings of billionaire Benedict Peters' expanding galaxy

Nigeria
AFC, Ecobank and Shell loan for OML 29, a $2bn thorn in Aiteo's side

Guinea
Nigerian mogul Benedict Peters eyes Guinea's iron deposits

In Focus | Angola, Ghana
Covid tests, an unexpected windfall for Israeli-Swiss group Mitrelli, China's BGI and Nigeria's Peters family

Nigeria, United States
Benedict Peters teams up with arch-conservative Steve Bannon to cosy up to Buhari

In Focus | Nigeria
The ghost of Enron returns to haunt yacht once owned by former oil minister Alison-Madueke's trader pals

Nigeria
OML 29: Aiteo's Benedict Peters left in the lurch by IS45

Nigeria
Swap deals: Kachikwu's great refinery failure

Nigeria
Aiteo questions path ahead with OML 29 expiry looming

Nigeria
Who are part of Aiteo boss Benedict Peters' inner circle?

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Aiteo boss Benedict Peters steps up to handle crippling debt

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How Buhari hands NNPC's crude to those in his debt

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Some applaud and others lament Madueke’s departure

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