Vol 50 No 20 | NIGERIA Bankable Assets 8th October 2009 The introduction by the Central Bank of Nigeria of polymer banknotes on 1 October has been blighted by accusations that millions of pounds in illegal commissions have been...
Vol 60 No 18 | NIGERIA The oil clean-up that didn't? 13th September 2019 The efforts to repair environmental damage to the oil-producing Niger Delta lack ambition and urgency The delays seemed at an end in 2015, when President Muhammadu Buhari formally launched the clean-up operation and endorsed the composition of the structures supervising the operations –...
Vol 49 No 18 | NIGERIA Unhealthy talk 5th September 2008 The rumours of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s demise reverberating around Nigeria’s mobile phone networks over the past week were assuredly exaggerated, a combination of misinformation and idle political...
Vol 64 No 24 | NIGERIA Central bank’s Cardoso faces policy fight 30th November 2023 The radio silence from President Tinubu's economic reform team is unsettling financial bigwigs Mystery surrounds the failure of the Central Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to meet since its new governor Yemi Cardoso was appointed in late September. Bankers don't like...
Vol 39 No 20 | NIGERIA Usman Optimism 9th October 1998 After four years as a virtual pariah, Nigeria was feted at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meeting as a rare bright spot on a sea...