Vol 52 No 23 | NIGERIA Inflammatory subsidy 18th November 2011 Jonathan says fuel subsidies will end on New Year’s Day but few people expect that he can pull off such a momentous change to Nigerian life The federal government’s decision to remove fuel subsidies from 1 January 2012 is dividing the public and raising the spectre of unrest. The government insists that it cannot...
Vol 66 No 23 | NIGERIA Tinubu pushes the multi-party system over a cliff 21st November 2025 Instead of attacking the government on insecurity and economic woes, the opposition wastes its energy on factional battles Two resonant images sum up the decline and fall of multi-party politics in Nigeria. The first is of the headquarters of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) at its...
Vol 60 No 16 | NIGERIA Bunkering mentality 9th August 2019 In the piracy-riven Gulf of Guinea, there is doubt as to whether one particular vessel, the Indian-registered MT Apecus, was a victim of pirates or a pirate ship....
Vol 60 No 12 | NIGERIA Oando chief takes on his foes 14th June 2019 The company's management is fighting the regulator's orders to quit amid threats of fresh investigations A reckoning is due in the battle for Oando, one of the country's biggest independent oil companies, after the market regulator barred its CEO and his deputy from...
Vol 51 No 9 | NIGERIA The gung-ho Governor 30th April 2010 The ruling party is set to win next month’s elections amid growing criticism at home and abroad Nine months after he ordered the sacking of six bank chief executives and took their institutions into state management, the Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Sanusi Lamido...
