Vol 1 (AAC) No 6 | NIGERIA Shamsudeen Usman 7th November 2008 Finance Minister, Nigeria Since joining Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's cabinet in 2007 as Finance Minister, Shamsudeen Usman has courted foreign investment - particularly from China - to rejuvenate Nigeria's infrastructure and boost its petroleum production....
Vol 41 No 22 | NIGERIA Hard loans 10th November 2000 Nigeria is questioning the legitimacy of much of the US$27 million debt claimed by the Paris Club of Western government creditors. Almost unprecedentedly, the meeting on 26-27 October...
Vol 65 No 10 | NIGERIAEUROPEAN UNIONAFRICAMIGRATION Mystery surrounds Brussels migration deal with Abuja 1st May 2024 Abuja is silent after a top official at the EU says it has agreed to a migrant return scheme – without cash incentives Top officials at the European Commission say they have concluded talks on a migrant readmission and return agreement with Nigeria that could mark a breakthrough in Brussels-Abuja relations....
Vol 54 No 11 | NIGERIA Blocking the great reform bill 24th May 2013 Partisan wrangling and commercial manoeuvring have derailed plans to make the oil and gas industry more efficient and accountable Efforts towards comprehensive reform of Nigeria’s oil and gas industry are in tatters some five years after the first version of the Petroleum Industry Bill was presented to...
Vol 50 No 8 | NIGERIAUNITED STATES The Halliburton trials 17th April 2009 Weeks after Information Minister Dora Akunyili announced a campaign to rehabilitate Nigeria’s international image, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s government faces the strongest test of its corruption-fighting credentials in...
