Vol 3 (AAC) No 9 | NIGERIACHINA Telecom troubles 20th July 2010 Plans to sell the state-owned Nigeria Telecommunications (Nitel) have floundered after China Unicom announced it would not be contributing to the front-running New Generation Consortium comprised of China Unicom Europe, the...
Vol 43 No 18 | NIGERIA Impeachment 13th September 2002 Two weeks ago President Olusegun Obasanjo considered threats by the House of Representatives to impeach him if he didn't resign as 'a joke carried too far' by a...
Vol 66 No 7 | NIGERIA Tinubu bets the farm on Rivers State 4th April 2025 Determined to control the state’s politics and oil before the 2027 elections, the President has suspended an opposition governor In the latest twist in the power struggle to control Rivers State, the two leading protagonists – Governor Siminilayi Fubara and his predecessor Nyesom Wike – both appear...
Vol 61 No 15 | NIGERIA Fight in the last chance saloon 23rd July 2020 After hearing the arguments, a London court is about to rule on whether Abuja can challenge a record-breaking US$10 billion award against it A substantial part of Nigeria's foreign financing strategy and the fortunes of a New York hedge fund, in partnership with an obscure entity registered in the British Virgin...
Vol 58 No 23 | NIGERIA Militants turn the screw 17th November 2017 Secessionists and Delta rebels are gaining support as Abuja and the oil giants fail to answer for lingering effects of the oil curse The first warning came on 2 February last year. Niger Delta pirates in two speedboats boarded a Bulgarian tanker 160 kilometres off the Bakassi Peninsula, on Nigeria's south-eastern...