Vol 65 No 10 | NIGERIA Crypto cross words 9th May 2024 Top cryptocurrency platform Binance is accused of tax evasion, currency speculation and money laundering by Abuja Officials in Abuja say that Binance, an online platform to trade cryptocurrencies, came close to destroying what is now only Africa's third largest economy by facilitating money laundering... READ FOR FREE
Vol 60 No 20 | BENINNIGERIA Protectionism and patronage 11th October 2019 A bid by President Muhammadu Buhari to stop the smuggling of rice and petrol is turning into a cross-border political fight Ten months after its inauguration the new integrated frontier crossing between Nigeria and Benin at Sémé Kraké on the key Lagos-Cotonou corridor was closed to most trade on...
Vol 56 No 11 | NIGERIA Delta, dollars and Downing Street 29th May 2015 Concerns about stability and commercial interests informed the sudden meeting between President Buhari and Britain’s Prime Minister Security, crime and migration topped the agenda when Nigerian President-elect Muhammadu Buhari met United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron at 10 Downing Street on 23 May. Aside from...
Vol 63 No 14 | NIGERIA Atiku and Tinubu clash on the economy 7th July 2022 Spiralling prices, public debt and joblessness make living standards the top issue in the presidential race A month after their emergence as presidential candidates, the economic programmes of Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar extolling the virtues of untrammelled market economics face more serious scrutiny...
Vol 54 No 14 | NIGERIA The governors and the insurgency 5th July 2013 Quieter streets along with fewer attacks and bombings suggest the declaration of emergency rule in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states is holding back, for now, the momentum of...