Vol 59 No 4 | NIGERIA 'Feigned lawsuit' bid to foil US 23rd February 2018 US authorities say bogus litigation is being used to try to prevent the seizure of Nigerian oil traders' assets A string of unusual lawsuits is frustrating law-enforcement agencies' attempts to seize assets belonging to oil traders accused of becoming extraordinarily wealthy because they were cronies of Diezani...
Vol 64 No 5 | NIGERIA A high turnout will shake up national politics 24th February 2023 Peter Obi easily wins the opinion polls but the elections on the ground are still wide open If many of the local and international opinion polls on Nigeria's presidential elections on 25 February prove accurate, then Peter Obi, the multi-millionaire banker standing on the Labour...
Vol 38 No 2 | NIGERIA Booming and bombing 17th January 1997 The coming oil boom has upped the stakes in the escalating confrontation between the government and its opponents There is no grand design to the violence that is wracking the country. Government supporters and oppositionists are pursuing vendettas against each other and a shadowy third force...
Vol 51 No 21 | NIGERIA Ready for change in the Niger Delta 22nd October 2010 If the amnesty fails and the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta resumes its armed struggle, figures from the past and future of Delta militancy will...
Vol 47 No 22 | NIGERIA Fear of flying 3rd November 2006 Africa, with less than four per cent of the world's air traffic, suffers about a third of its air disasters. The latest, on 29 October, killed the Sultan...
