Vol 38 No 6 | NIGERIA Second thoughts 14th March 1997 Speculation about General Sani Abacha's political ambitions dominates the calculations of aspiring presidential candidates who had wanted to throw their hats in the ring before the 15 March...
Vol 40 No 17 | NIGERIA Obasanjo's one hundred days 27th August 1999 President Obasanjo moves with surprising speed against patronage but the inevitable clouds loom For now, it is no longer business as usual in Nigeria. In just three months, President Olusegun Obasanjo's whisk broom of reform has swept away the notoriously parasitical...
Vol 41 No 16 | NIGERIA Transparency test 4th August 2000 Not much is going right in the government's efforts to relaunch licensing of prime oil exploration acreage: it had cancelled many awards made under military rule. The present...
Vol 51 No 1 | NIGERIA A khaki option on the table 8th January 2010 Nigeria’s military, though much diminished, still sees itself as the last truly national institution and the final custodian of the state. If the current crisis unravels, senior officers...
Vol 50 No 3 | NIGERIA Why Jos burned 6th February 2009 A vicious mix of ethnic and religious politics set the Middle Belt capital alight and has now caused a row with the presidency The first half of December saw the town of Jos burn, as gangs of youths took to the streets for targeted killing, criminal bloodletting and wanton destruction. By...
