The just-announced international joint venture between the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and Russia’s GazProm may be a match made in heaven, but the decision to call the venture by an amalgam of the companies’ names: NIGAZ

Well let’s just say that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton could probably use a few contributions from foreign energy companies anyway.

Where was Nancy Friedman when the Russians needed her?

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