Vol 61 No 18 | NIGERIA Building back bigger 10th September 2020 Planning to spend over 20 billion dollars on grand projects, the Buhari government is raising tariffs and tolls as well as taking on more debt Many Nigerians are disappointed that, as President Muhammadu Buhari is a year into his second term, he has not done more to halt the scourge of corrupt trading...
Vol 50 No 14 | NIGERIA Half-time for Yar'Adua 10th July 2009 Yar'Adua's three new recruits may help improve the government's performance, but the problems of power generation and the Delta remain After two years of drift, President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua and his government seem to be trying to arrest the slide. Recent appointments have bolstered the administration's competence. The...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 2 | NIGERIASOUTH KOREA A useful deal in the Delta 15th December 2009 South Korea's state-run Land and Housing Corporation is offering investments and technical cooperation in the oil-rich Niger Delta, a move that might help the ambitions of Seoul's energy companies and appeal...
Vol 45 No 20 | NIGERIA Day of the locusts 8th October 2004 Asari and his foes have pulled back from the brink in the Niger Delta but the threat remains Mujahid Dokubo Asari's 'Operation Locust Feast' was supposed to begin on Independence Day, 1 October, and was effectively a declaration of war on President Olusegun Obasanjo's government and...
Vol 66 No 21 | NIGERIA Coup plot or not 24th October 2025 Mobile phones started buzzing on 17 October about a thwarted coup plot, fired up by a story on Sahara Reporters on the arrest of 16 officers ‘over issues...
