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Supplement to Official Gazette

ACQUISITION OF ASSETS (BRITISH PETROLEUM COMPANY LIMITED) DECREE 1979 Decree No. 56 THE FEDERAL MILITARY GOVERNMENT hereby decrees as follows: 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other enactment, all shares of whatever description and however held by the British Petroleum Company Limited in BP Nigeria Limited and all rights, privileges, equities, entitle ments and interests of whatever description held by or due to the British Petroleum Company Limited in all oil concessions in Nigeria (including licences and oil mining leases) granted to the Shell-BP Petroleum Develop ment Company of Nig…