Vol 62 No 9 | NIGERIA Oil reform gathers pace 29th April 2021 Lobbying frenzy as parliament prepares long-awaited bill to reform and restructure energy industry Leaks of apparent last-minute concessions on fiscal terms and overseas 'retreats' for lawmakers are the most tangible indicators in years that Nigeria may finally be at the point...
Vol 49 No 17 | NIGERIA Service shuffle 22nd August 2008 President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's appointment of new service chiefs and a new Chief of Defence Staff on 20 August will further reduce the political power of former President...
Vol 67 No 7 | NIGERIA Tinubu’s oil reforms hit a wall of old debts and new sabotage 3rd April 2026 The President is moving faster to unlock stalled investments but forward crude sales and pipeline attacks are cutting into the oil price windfall President Bola Ahmed Tinubu came to office in May 2023 promising to reverse two decades of decline in Nigeria’s petroleum sector, and on paper the progress is real:...
Vol 44 No 7 | NIGERIA Delta force 4th April 2003 Just when oil markets needed abundant West African crude supplies (AC Vol 44 No 6), an explosion of violence in Delta State has cut off a third of...
Vol 60 No 11 | NIGERIA Troubles mount for Buhari 31st May 2019 There will be no radical changes in economic policy but a reshuffle of the security chiefs is probable and long overdue It may have been lack-lustre economy or the deepening national security crisis but President Muhammadu Buhari's swearing-in on 29 May was a morose affair. It was also short...
