Vol 63 No 15 | NIGERIA Peter Obi shakes up the political class 21st July 2022 The depth of the country's crises is forcing voters to rethink their choices – to the great benefit of the former governor of Anambra state Millionaire bankers make improbable revolutionaries, especially in Nigeria. But Peter Obi, the geeky former governor of Anambra state, is upending the political establishment's complacency about next year's presidential...
Vol 59 No 21 | NIGERIA The flight into Israel 26th October 2018 The leader of the supposed Igbo independence movement, Nwannekaenyi 'Nnamdi' Kenny Okwu Kanu, seems to have turned up in Israel after going on the run from a trial...
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 57 No 19 | NIGERIA No oil, no money, no deal 23rd September 2016 Both sides are edging towards some sort of deal that will get the money flowing again – to the Treasury and to the Delta There is an inexorable logic to the tortuous negotiations between the government and the Niger Delta Avengers, the most determined of the militant groups launching attacks in the... READ FOR FREE
Vol 54 No 18 | NIGERIA Cracks widen in the PDP 6th September 2013 Seven state governors have walked out of the governing party, dealing a critical blow to its election strategy As he started a three-day state visit to Kenya on 5 September, President Goodluck Jonathan might try to put his own government’s political disarray into perspective. His host,...