Vol 54 No 11 | NIGERIA Lagos leniency 24th May 2013 A Lagos court has sentenced Azim Aghajani, the Iranian convicted on 13 May of importing 13 containers of infantry weapons, to only five years, along with his Nigerian...
Vol 57 No 8 | NIGERIA Economy thwarts Buhari 15th April 2016 Dilemmas over the exchange rate top a lengthening list of woes. The government turns to China for help A year after the national boost from Muhammadu Buhari’s victory in the presidential election, the economic crisis is deepening, worsened by a combination of falling commodity prices, tighter...
Vol 50 No 23 | NIGERIACHINA China's new bid for Nigerian oil 20th November 2009 China has expressed interest in buying 49% stakes in 23 soon-to-expire oil block licences. The London Financial Times reported in September that the China National Offshore Oil Corporation...
Vol 64 No 5 | NIGERIA A high turnout will shake up national politics 24th February 2023 Peter Obi easily wins the opinion polls but the elections on the ground are still wide open If many of the local and international opinion polls on Nigeria's presidential elections on 25 February prove accurate, then Peter Obi, the multi-millionaire banker standing on the Labour...
Vol 53 No 14 | NIGERIA Dazzling statistics 6th July 2012 The government’s financing gap is opening up and the reformers are being blocked but the investors keep on coming Which are the more stunning figures? The billions of dollars of investment sluicing into Nigeria despite its deepening security crisis? Or the billions of dollars of oil and...
