Vol 49 No 10 | NIGERIA The gas ghost keeps haunting 9th May 2008 US investigators say they have new evidence of corruption by international companies working on Nigeria's gas export plant Criminal investigators in the United States and Europe are widening their probe into claims that the USA's oil service giant Halliburton and three other multinationals working on a...
Vol 44 No 5 | NIGERIAFRANCEAFRICA Jacques is back 7th March 2003 France's triumphal return to Africa is marred only slightly by the tricky problems it faces there It was an impressive turnout. Forty-two heads of state or government braved the icy cold of Paris and its unlovely Porte Maillot conference centre for the biennial...
Vol 63 No 21 | NIGERIA Grand corruption wrecks Niger delta clean-up 20th October 2022 Theft from the billion-dollar oil clean-up in Ogoniland is so bad that the operation's chief architect, the UN Environment Programme, wants to quit The UN Environment Programme is set for a bitter break with Nigeria over the clean-up of pipeline spills in the Niger delta despite almost 15 years of close...
Vol 48 No 9 | NIGERIA Uneasy truce in Delta State 27th April 2007 Emmanuel Uduaghan, the winner of the heavily disputed governorship elections in Delta State, will have a critical economic and political role in the coming months. He is the...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 1 | NIGERIACHINA The honeymoon is over 27th November 2008 The once thriving Abuja-Beijing relationship has hit problems The catastrophic failure in November of Nigeria’s US$340 million, Chinese-built satellite NIGCOMSAT-1, launched only a year ago, is the latest, most visible indication of increasing difficulties...
