Vol 51 No 2 | NIGERIA The nearly man 22nd January 2010 After President Yar’Adua’s two-month health crisis in Saudi Arabia, Vice-President Jonathan’s supporters urge him to seize the day On 16 January, the Vice-President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, began to sound like a Nigerian President. His many supporters across the country say it's not before time: they are...
Vol 64 No 16 | NIGERIA Amid protests over spiralling prices, Tinubu names new team 3rd August 2023 Political payback rather than competence shapes list of ministerial nominees as economic woes deepen The publication of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's list of 28 ministerial nominees on 27 July was held up for almost two months by tortuous negotiations over federal and...
Vol 45 No 15 | NIGERIA Delta damages 21st July 2004 By helicopter and canoe, people flee the violence; oil companies count the cost Death and destruction in the Niger Delta is driving ChevronTexaco and its insurers into a legal battle. After attacks on its oil wells and pipelines in April 2003,...
Vol 64 No 20 | NIGERIA Net widens in oil trial 5th October 2023 After Britain's National Crime Agency investigated her for 11 years, Diezani Alison-Madueke, Nigeria's former Minister of Petroleum Resources in 2010-15, finally appeared at Westminster Magistrate's court on 2...
Vol 47 No 11 | NIGERIA Pop goes the third term balloon 26th May 2006 With a third term for President Obasanjo blocked, there is a frantic race to find a successor The attempt to change the constitution, allowing President Olusegun Obasanjo to stand for a third term in 2007, has failed, defeated in a Senate vote. The result damages...