Vol 58 No 5 | NIGERIA Health checks 3rd March 2017 More flexibility on the exchange rate could bring down the cost of borrowing The tribulations of the Nigerian currency, the naira, might offer some respite to President Muhammadu Buhari, currently in London under doctor's orders. The prospect of a change in...
Vol 62 No 10 | NIGERIA The northern nexus 13th May 2021 As the security emergency spreads across the core northern states, insurgents and bandits are devastating an already weakened regional economy Until recently, governors in the northern states were chary of criticising President Muhammadu Buhari's government on security policy. That is changing as the crisis intensifies and elections loom.
Vol 50 No 15 | NIGERIA Amnesty not honesty 24th July 2009 The N50 bn. amnesty deal offers a respite but will not change the corruption and environmental despoliation that fire the conflict in the Niger Delta The Niger Delta militants take an unorthodox approach to public relations. In the morning of 12 July they launched 'Operation Moses', detonating a bomb which devastated part of...
Vol 46 No 23 | NIGERIA Abacha's verdict 18th November 2005 Ken Saro-Wiwa was a dangerous separatist 'who presented himself as an environmentalist and human rights activist before the international community', who was guilty of heinous crimes that demanded...
Vol 43 No 4 | NIGERIA Crossed lines 22nd February 2002 Africa's biggest privatisation so far, the US$1.3 billion deal for control of Nitel, Nigeria's state telecoms company, is unravelling. A consortium of Nigerian businesses, banks, state governments and...