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 37 No 13 | NIGERIA Fat margins 21st June 1996 Oil traders and their sponsors may grumble that prices are low. But for the well-connected trader Nigeria is offering some of the best returns around. A comparison of...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 1 | NIGERIACHINA The honeymoon is over 27th November 2008 The once thriving Abuja-Beijing relationship has hit problems The catastrophic failure in November of Nigeria’s US$340 million, Chinese-built satellite NIGCOMSAT-1, launched only a year ago, is the latest, most visible indication of increasing difficulties...
Vol 54 No 22 | NIGERIA Jonathan’s dialogue plan outflanks rebels 31st October 2013 As the political class gets drawn into presidential plans for a national conference, the rebel state governors are running out of options It has taken six weeks for President Goodluck Jonathan to regain the political initiative after seven state governors walked out of his party’s national conference at the end... READ FOR FREE
Vol 41 No 22 | NIGERIA Hard loans 10th November 2000 Nigeria is questioning the legitimacy of much of the US$27 million debt claimed by the Paris Club of Western government creditors. Almost unprecedentedly, the meeting on 26-27 October...
