Seven state governors have walked out of the governing party, dealing a critical blow to its election strategy
As he started a three-day state visit to Kenya on 5 September, President Goodluck Jonathan might try to put his own government’s political disarray into perspective. His host,...
Despite security and economic crises, Jonathan wins his party’s support for a second term while the opposition faces a leadership contest
The candidate's declaration speech is, by tradition, a key moment in the theatre of Nigerian politics. President Goodluck Jonathan's rally in Abuja on 11 November to announce that...
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A long history of failure does not discourage Western leaders
who believe their intervention can improve conditions in the oil-rich
Niger Delta. Yet judging from recent history, the capacity of
outside intervention to make things even worse in the Delta looks
assured. After the United States' stalled efforts at training
Nigeria's military and Royal Dutch Shell's attempts at corporate
responsibility, Britain and France have offered military assistance
to tackle continuing violence in the Delta.
Offering military assistance to a country that did not request it is extremely bad manners, responded a seasoned Nigerian analyst after French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British...
Insulated from political chaos, this year’s budget assumes a gross domestic product growth rate of 7.2%. The International Monetary Fund reckons it may be just under 7%. Early...
Twenty years after he left power, Gen. Obasanjo looks set to return, this time with an electoral mandate
General Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria’s first military officer to hand power to an elected government, looks set - 20 years later - to become the first officer to win...