Vol 53 No 9 | NIGERIA Half-truths on subsidies 27th April 2012 The report on the US$6.8 billion fuel subsidy fraud by the Chairman of the National Assembly Ad Hoc Committee, Farouk Lawan, was tabled on 24 April....
Vol 49 No 9 | NIGERIA Unhealthy prospects 25th April 2008 If nothing else, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has proved wrong those critics who claimed he would be a mere puppet of his predecessor, Olusegun Obasanjo. Both men lead...
Vol 51 No 5 | NIGERIA Yar'Adua goes into extra time 5th March 2010 The reappearance of the President has worsened the political paralysis – and the splits in the PDP government On 3 March, the state governors decided to block a vote that could have set in motion President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s enforced resignation on medical grounds. This has...
Vol 63 No 24 | NIGERIA Contractors who clean up 1st December 2022 With no accounts or tenders published, disquiet continues to grow over the companies HYPREP has contracted for remediation work Concerns over the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) are growing among Ogoni activists and politicians and civil society organisations against pollution, backing the already reported worries of the...
Vol 44 No 5 | NIGERIA Outgunning the opposition 7th March 2003 Shaky administration and growing political violence threaten the credibility of April's national elections The political scene has been ominously quiet as several constitutional issues rumble. The most serious is whether the 18 April presidential election can be held within President Olusegun...
