Vol 38 No 9 | NIGERIA Running for cover 25th April 1997 Confusion abounds about General Sani Abacha's political intentions. Following an interview with the Washington Times in which Abacha said his possible candidacy in the 1998 presidential elections would...
Vol 53 No 14 | NIGERIA Dazzling statistics 6th July 2012 The government’s financing gap is opening up and the reformers are being blocked but the investors keep on coming Which are the more stunning figures? The billions of dollars of investment sluicing into Nigeria despite its deepening security crisis? Or the billions of dollars of oil and...
Vol 41 No 20 | NIGERIA The new securocrats 13th October 2000 President Olusegun Obasanjo's security structure works as follows...
Vol 48 No 8 | NIGERIA Too many parties spoil the polls 13th April 2007 Opposition to the governing People's Democratic Party (PDP) is split between 24 different parties, most of which cannot even dream of winning a governorship, much less the Presidency.
Vol 37 No 4 | NIGERIA Sanctions steam 16th February 1996 A head of steam is again building up for tougher sanctions against General Sani Abacha's government. A January review in Washington, we hear, considered three categories of sanction:...
