Vol 59 No 25 | NIGERIA Sharks in an oily soup 21st December 2018 Court papers in Italy claim that international oil companies, investment banks and top politicians benefited from a multi-billion dollar oil scandal Six months into the court hearings into the purchase of an offshore oil block licence in Nigeria by Royal Dutch Shell and Italy's ENI, Giuseppina Barbara, the presiding...
Vol 49 No 12 | NIGERIA Quiet President, worried country 6th June 2008 Umaru Yar’Adua is short on leadership – just when Nigeria needs it There was little fanfare for Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s first anniversary as Nigeria’s President on 29 May. His quiet leadership infuriates his opponents and bewilders those accustomed to rulers...
Vol 67 No 6 | NIGERIABRITAIN Tinubu hollows out the opposition 20th March 2026 With rivals co-opted, detained or outmanoeuvred, and a new electoral law, the President has engineered near-total political dominance When they meet Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on his 18-19 March state visit hosted by Britain’s King Charles III at Windsor Castle, some politicians in the ruling...
Vol 42 No 22 | NIGERIA Unknown soldiers 9th November 2001 A massacre of more than 200 Tiv causes ructions in the military and the federation When Nigerian soldiers slaughtered more than 200 civilians in Benue State, they called into question the moral basis of President Olusegun Obasanjo's government. The Obasanjo regime, in contrast...
Vol 64 No 10 | NIGERIAEUROPEAN UNION Will you be my strategic partner? 11th May 2023 The European Union's diplomatic service, the European External Action Service, has earmarked four countries, one from each continent, as 'key strategic partners' as it seeks to boost its...
