Vol 53 No 13 | NIGERIAUNITED STATES Fine gesture 22nd June 2012 The United States Securities and Exchange Commission is giving ‘appropriate consideration’ to a request that it share with the victims the financial penalties (‘disgorgement’) it levies on companies...
Vol 38 No 17 | NIGERIA The oil hostage 29th August 1997 The oil business is being held hostage, not by foreign sanctions but by the government Nigeria's oil industry is beginning to seize up. The state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has received no budget allocations for seven months. Except for a small contribution this...
Vol 49 No 25 | NIGERIA Crisis? What crisis? 12th December 2008 The world slump has made nonsense of the budget plans – and slashed expected oil revenues The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria says there is no need to panic, the country is adequately insulated from the global slowdown and will not suffer...
Vol 40 No 17 | NIGERIA Clearly confusing 27th August 1999 Three months on, the economic policy of General Olusegun Obasanjo's government remains opaque. While the price of oil, which at US$20 a barrel is nearly twice that...
Vol 37 No 14 | NIGERIA Commonwealth collapse 5th July 1996 Foreign minister Ikimi and his team bamboozle Marlborough House Nigeria's delegation of 17 emerged victorious from its closed-door confrontation with the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group in London on 24-25 June. Led by Foreign Minister Tom Ikimi, it...
