Vol 54 No 5 | NIGERIA No visible means of support 1st March 2013 Oppositionists unite and governing party dissidents plot against him but the President is fighting back, armed with state and business patronage It doesn’t look good for President Goodluck Jonathan as he prepares his campaign for a second term in the 2015 elections. His close advisors concede that he could...
Vol 45 No 15 | NIGERIA Delta damages 21st July 2004 By helicopter and canoe, people flee the violence; oil companies count the cost Death and destruction in the Niger Delta is driving ChevronTexaco and its insurers into a legal battle. After attacks on its oil wells and pipelines in April 2003,...
Vol 46 No 23 | NIGERIA Ten years after 18th November 2005 The Niger Delta still simmers a decade after the execution of its leading campaigner The legacy of writer-campaigner Ken Saro-Wiwa a decade after his execution is secure. Saro-Wiwa put the worsening political and environmental crisis of the Niger Delta, the country's key...
Vol 58 No 18 | NIGERIA Abuja's high hopes in New York 8th September 2017 The Buhari government's diplomats and securocrats are looking to make deals at this year's UN General Assembly Whoever leads the Nigerian delegation to this year's United Nations General Assembly – President Muhammadu Buhari or his deputy Yemi Osinbajo – security concerns, national and regional, will...
Vol 67 No 6 | NIGERIABRITAIN Tinubu hollows out the opposition 20th March 2026 With rivals co-opted, detained or outmanoeuvred, and a new electoral law, the President has engineered near-total political dominance When they meet Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on his 18-19 March state visit hosted by Britain’s King Charles III at Windsor Castle, some politicians in the ruling...
