In the heart of the British Virgin Islands, Process & Industrial Developments Limited (P&ID), a seemingly unremarkable engineering and project management company, emerged to cast an astonishing shadow over Nigeria’s fiscal landscape. Founded by the Irish businessman Michael “Mick” Quinn and his counterpart Brendan Cahill, P&ID’s original mission was rooted in Nigeria’s prosperous oil and […]
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