Vol 54 No 11 | NIGERIA Blocking the great reform bill 24th May 2013 Partisan wrangling and commercial manoeuvring have derailed plans to make the oil and gas industry more efficient and accountable Efforts towards comprehensive reform of Nigeria’s oil and gas industry are in tatters some five years after the first version of the Petroleum Industry Bill was presented to...
Vol 37 No 6 | NIGERIA Money and the military 15th March 1996 As Washington lobbies Europe for sanctions on the soldiers in Abuja, business gives them a vote of confidence In a bizarre way, business is learning to live with, if not to love, General Sani Abacha. For those not exercised by questions of human rights, democracy or...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 1 | NIGERIAASIA New order, new deals 23rd October 2008 Asian companies face new rules and new relationships in Africa’s most prolific but politically complex oil producer Reforms in Nigeria’s oil sector, promised by Minister of State for Oil Odein Ajumogobia, will mean that some of the multibillion dollar deals with Asian companies will be reviewed...
Vol 57 No 25 | NIGERIA Things fall apart in Rivers vote 16th December 2016 Both parties are to blame for the rigging and killings that could weaken President Buhari's national standing No one emerges with credit from the violent fiasco of the elections that were re-run in Rivers State on 10 December. Nationally, the polls were a test of...
Vol 40 No 12 | NIGERIA Exeunt sojas 11th June 1999 It was a spectacular coda to 16 years of military rule. On 29 May, more than 30 heads of state, ex-heads of state and international dignitaries -...