Vol 51 No 5 | NIGERIA On her Majesty's Secret Service 5th March 2010 Wits in Abuja have taken to referring to First Lady Turai Yar’Adua as ‘Her Majesty’ and her coterie of apparatchiks as the ‘Secret Service’. She organised the clandestine...
Vol 65 No 9 | NIGERIA Cardoso plans a brave new banking world 25th April 2024 Tough new capital requirements by the central bank will mean fewer but busier commercial banks An improbable revolutionary, central bank governor, Olayemi Michael Cardoso, could preside over the biggest shake-up of Nigeria's financial sector for decades. His announcement last month of tough new...
Vol 44 No 9 | NIGERIA Landslide in the Delta 2nd May 2003 The presidential and gubernatorial elections in the oil-rich Niger Delta set new standards of improbability. Just over twelve hours after voting ended in some parts of Rivers, the...
Vol 62 No 14 | NIGERIA Abuja takes on the secessionists 8th July 2021 The security services haul in militant separatist Nnamdi Kanu then narrowly miss Sunday Igboho in Ibadan The Department of State Services (DSS) emerged from the shadows at the end of last month with all guns blazing, literally. Its targets were two hyper-populists from the... READ FOR FREE
Vol 41 No 19 | NIGERIAUNITED KINGDOM Kanu help? 29th September 2000 Nwankwo Kanu of Nigeria, the current African Player of the Year who now plys his trade in Britain after spells in Holland and Italy, is telling British newspapers...
