British company to audit Nigerian oil industry

Nigeria has selected a British company to audit its oil sector in the government’s most serious bid yet to bring transparency to a multi-billion-dollar industry plagued by corruption.

Hart Group of Aylesbury signed a £1.2m (€1.7m) contract with private and public sector oil officials to audit “the whole of the sector in which the federal government has any kind of financial interest,” the group’s managing director, Chris Nurse, said today