Vol 65 No 4 | NIGERIA UN breaks with scandal-hit pollution agency 12th February 2024 Theft of oil spill clean-up funds in Ogoniland is set to continue as the UN Environment Programme cuts ties with HYPREP Activists and environmentalists looking for a policy change on the troubled US$1 billion clean-up project in the Niger Delta by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's government have been disappointed....
Vol 39 No 1 | NIGERIA Rotters or plotters? 9th January 1998 On the face it, the 21 December allegation that the Deputy Head of State, Lieutenant General Oladipo Diya, Major General Tunji Olanrewaju, Maj. Gen. Abdulkarim Adisa and eight...
Vol 67 No 7 | NIGERIA Parliament backs election budget 3rd April 2026 By getting MPs to back spending increases taking the 2026 budget to US$49.4 billion, a 15% increase on the plan tabled in December, President Bola Tinubu is leaving...
Vol 38 No 24 | NIGERIA Rebranding Abacha 5th December 1997 The personality cult around General Sani Abacha is growing rapidly, ahead of his expected candidacy in next August's presidential elections. A new biography entitled – Sani Abacha –...
Vol 46 No 23 | NIGERIA Abacha's verdict 18th November 2005 Ken Saro-Wiwa was a dangerous separatist 'who presented himself as an environmentalist and human rights activist before the international community', who was guilty of heinous crimes that demanded...