Vol 58 No 15 | NIGERIAUNITED STATES Diezani in their sights 21st July 2017 The net tightens around former Oil Minister Allison-Madueke as US prosecutors target her business partners' assets The filing of a US$144 million assets recovery case in Houston on 14 July points to substantive progress in international investigations into tens of billions of dollars of...
Vol 44 No 19 | NIGERIA Saharan desserts 26th September 2003 President Olusegun Obasanjo's commitment to fighting oil sector corruption (AC Vol 44 No 18) is being severely tested on the one hand by a Federal Government probe of...
Vol 44 No 9 | NIGERIA The naira republic wins again 2nd May 2003 Money-politics and vote-rigging will undermine President Obasanjo's second term without a full investigation of the poll 'Don't give me any more of those Florida results!' bellowed a Nigerian journalist at a computer screen in the Election Commission's media centre. The machine was spewing out...
Vol 62 No 13 | NIGERIA Debt crisis, what debt crisis? 24th June 2021 The government insists it can handle fast-mounting debts but increased security spending is stretching the budget While the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) say Nigeria's growing debt is sustainable, worries are growing over the cost of debt servicing relative to revenues.
Vol 52 No 20 | NIGERIA The loot looted 7th October 2011 Suspicion has been growing in Nigeria that some of the billions recovered from corrupt public officials may have been stolen again. A human rights group, the Socio-Economic Rights...