It is the trial of the century which opened on January 23 in London for Nigeria, as its outcome will weigh on the future of the country. A future hanging on the decision that will have to to return Judge Robin Knowles who will decide, or not, to annul an arbitration award which condemns Abuja to pay some 11 billion dollars to Process & Industrial Developments Limited (P&ID) which sued him.
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Nigeria challenges this sentence on the grounds that P&ID secured both the original contract and the arbitration victory by lying and bribing Nigerian officials and lawyers. Accusations that this offshore company registered in the Virgin Islands refutes by means of a defense which consists in blaming the defeat of the country on the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari, castigating “the endemic institutional incompetence” of the government Nigerian.
