spinwing,
Your
friends with excellent connections at CHC
obviously donīt have that good connections. Susan has recruited many people for Nigeria and is a very pleasant, helpful person to deal with.
Bristow will indeed hire pilots withg less than 2500 hours because the Pan African B407/206 operation is for single pilot VFR only and is mostly shuttling to platforms not too far offshore. However, most of the oil companies in Nigeria set higher experience requirements for IFR Captains on twins, as operated by CHC. There are discussions going on with the NCAA at present as to whether they may allow some short-term use of expatriates to cover the helicopter pilot shortage in Nigeria, but the outcome of that will likely depend on the number of Nigerian ab-initio pilots either CHC or Bristow is likely to pay to train.
You could always look at Caverton if you want lousy money for a lousy roster and lousy treatment.