Vol 63 No 16 | NIGERIA Attacks shatter Abuja’s complacency 4th August 2022 After breaking into a prison in the capital and killing elite security officers, Islamic State fighters claim they are now targeting President Buhari As Islamist militants launch deadly assaults on the outskirts of Abuja and the country groans under a hydra-headed security crisis, enraged opposition senators have issued an ultimatum to...
Vol 66 No 5 | NIGERIAWHO'S WHO Tuggar drives Nigeria’s strategic autonomy 7th March 2025 The appointment of Yusuf Maitama Tuggar as President Bola Tinubu’s Foreign Minister in May 2023 was one of the more imaginative cabinet choices. A former journalist and ambassador...
Vol 53 No 24 | NIGERIA How politicians help insurgents 30th November 2012 The federal government has played politics with the Boko Haram insurgency, using it to silence opposition from northern politicians who claim that President Goodluck Jonathan has broken the...
Vol 48 No 9 | NIGERIA The dealmaking begins 27th April 2007 The victorious People's Democratic Party wants to co-opt enough dissenters to put the rigged election furore behind it Time is pressing President-elect Umaru Yar'Adua ahead of the planned inauguration on 29 May. By then, he will have to put together his government transition team from the...
Vol 51 No 18 | NIGERIA A tight election timetable 10th September 2010 Key events in the coming months Opposition parties, trades unions and civic activists are protesting against the breakneck schedule announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for presidential elections on 22 January 2010....