Vol 63 No 10 | NIGERIA Consensus candidate plan upsets the frontrunners 2nd May 2022 Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu – political godfathers turned contenders – may lose out in primaries as alliances shift The next four weeks will be critical as over 30 contenders compete to become the country's next president – the parties have until 3 June to submit all...
Vol 64 No 12 | NIGERIA Shell holds up clean-up payments in graft row 26th May 2023 Sacked director of Ogoniland project spells out corruption concerns in rebuke to environment ministry Shell is withholding payments towards the Ogoniland clean-up until it sees a full accounting for the disputed contracts issued to date, Africa Confidential has learned from sources in... READ FOR FREE
Vol 43 No 25 | NIGERIA Election year 20th December 2002 The main milestone in preparations for the 2003 elections will be the Nominating Convention of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on 3-5 January, probably at Eagle Square,...
Vol 53 No 7 | NIGERIABRITAIN Ibori goes to Southwark 30th March 2012 Having pleaded guilty to ten money-laundering charges and obtaining a money transfer by deception and fraud, James Onanefe Ibori, the former Governor of Delta State, will...
Vol 60 No 12 | NIGERIA Oando chief takes on his foes 14th June 2019 The company's management is fighting the regulator's orders to quit amid threats of fresh investigations A reckoning is due in the battle for Oando, one of the country's biggest independent oil companies, after the market regulator barred its CEO and his deputy from...
