Our compound did have guards, tall walls, barbed wire, and heavy steel doors and bars over the windows - and our own generator.

Still, if someone had wanted to kill my dad it would have been easy.  One of the many servants, cooks, gardeners, chauffeurs and guards could probably have been bribed quite easily.  When you live in a country where the average annual wage is something like $100, there'd be a long line of people prepared to kill someone for a couple of grand.     When my dad told the main office in London that he believed he could quite easily reduce (not eliminate) some of the worst and most obvious corruption and graft in the company, and probably generate an additional two or three million dollars in revenue per year easily, they very emphatically told him to NOT even try ... because he would simply have been killed.  

Yeah, not a nice place.


And then was back in the days when Nigeria was actually much more stable and safe.