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Isaac Anyaogu

Isaac Anyaogu is an Assistant editor and head of the energy and environment desk. He is an award-winning journalist who has written hundreds of reports on Nigeria’s oil and gas industry, energy and environmental policies, regulation and climate change impacts in Africa. He was part of a journalist team that investigated lead acid pollution by an Indian recycler in Nigeria and won the international prize - Fetisov Journalism award in 2020. Mr Anyaogu joined BusinessDay in January 2016 as a multimedia content producer on the energy desk and rose to head the desk in October 2020 after several ground breaking stories and multiple award wining stories. His reporting covers start-ups, companies and markets, financing and regulatory policies in the power sector, oil and gas, renewable energy and environmental sectors He has covered the Niger Delta crises, and corruption in NIgeria’s petroleum product imports. He left the Audit and Consulting firm, OR&C Consultants in 2015 after three years to write for BusinessDay and his background working with financial statements, audit reports and tax consulting assignments significantly benefited his reporting. Mr Anyaogu studied mass communications and Media Studies and has attended several training programmes in Ghana, South Africa and the United States
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135 Articles

FG’s unwillingness to grant sovereign risk guarantee constrains new power projects

Delivered ahead of schedule and on budget, the 450 MW Azura Edo…

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Estimated billing: How a weak regulator normalised corruption

The 2007 Meter Reading, Cash Collections and Credit Management regulation enacted by…

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To-do list for Nigeria’s next petroleum minister

Drawing up competitive fiscal and regulatory terms for the oil and gas…

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Malabu scandal: Prosecutors say Aliyu Abubakar helped Jonathan distribute $520m cash bribe

Aliyu Abubakar, chairman of AA Oil was an agent of former president…

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Beg, threaten, or curse, ‘crazy electricity bills’ still await you 

After electricity bill for his wife’s shop went up from N3,000 to…

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Nigeria fails to consolidate past electoral gains

While the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) headed by Attahiru Jega recorded…

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South Africa’s oil discovery signals decline for future Nigerian supply

The discovery of crude oil by French oil and gas major Total…

5 Min Read

Nigerian universities: educating for a bygone future

Nigerian higher institutions look like relics when compared to their peers in…

12 Min Read
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