Samuel Okocha, AfricaNews reporter in Lagos, Nigeria
Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission [EFCC] filed charges against former Vice President of the United States, Richard "Dick" Cheney, and eight others, for complicity in the 'bribe for contract' arrangement in connection with the country's Bonny Liquefied Natural Gas Project.

According to Thisday, others charged with Cheney are Halliburton Inc., Halliburton Nigeria Limited, Kellog, Brown and Root and Root Inc., Albert "Jack" Stanley, Willaim Utt, David Lesar, TSKJ Nigeria Limited and TSKJ Consortium.
The suspects were accused of giving $132 million to one Jeffrey Tessler, Wojcieh J Chodan and Tri-Star Investment Limited to bribe public officials concerned with the award of the contract of Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Project in Nigeria, committing an offence under Section 96(1) (a) of Nigeria’s Penal Code.
“That you, Halliburton Inc., Halliburton Nigeria Limited, Kellog, Brown and Root and Root Inc., Richard Dick Cheney, Albert "Jack" Stanley, Willaim Utt, David Lessar, TSKJ Nigeria Limited and TSKJ Consortium within the Abuja Division of the Abuja high court, sometimes between 1994 and 2005 conspired with Snamprogetti Netherlands B.V., Technip S.A. Japan Gasoline Corp of Japan to commit a felony, to wit: giving the sum of USD132,000,00.00 to one Jeffrey Tesler (now at large), Wojcieh J Chodan (now at large) and Tri-Star Investment Limited for the purpose of gratification of public officials concerned with the award of contract of Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas project in Nigeria thereby committed an offence under Section 96 (1) (a) Penal Code and Punishable under Section 118 of the Penal Code.” Thisday quoted count one of the charges as reading.
Operatives of the EFCC had on November 24, 2010 raided the office of Halliburton in Lagos, arresting 12 people. EFCC's spokesman Mr Babafemi told NEXT the raid was carried out because of new discoveries in its investigation of alleged corrupt practices in the American oil services firm.