Vol 49 No 22 | NIGERIAECONOMY Economy: Trouble in the markets 31st October 2008 Watching oil prices fall from US$147 a barrel to $57 over the past month and listening to endless media speculation about his health must have been disconcerting for...
Vol 50 No 16 | NIGERIA Islamists raise the stakes as they take on Yar'Adua 7th August 2009 A militant leader lies dead after his sect fought the faltering government Within days of a truce being declared between militants in the Niger Delta and the government, serious fighting broke out in Nigeria's poverty-ridden north (AC Vol 50 No...
Vol 49 No 10 | NIGERIA Wojciech Chodan, Pepys and Shell 9th May 2008 The discovery by Halliburton's lawyers Baker Botts of more than 500 pages of notes penned by Wojciech Chodan (a Halliburton consultant and the Samuel Pepys of the energy...
Vol 42 No 25 | NIGERIA Octopus at work 21st December 2001 Opus Dei, a secretive organisation favoured by Pope John-Paul II, hopes to sign up more followers in Africa, where only 1,500 of its 80,000 members are estimated to...
Vol 64 No 17 | NIGERIA Pushback tests Tinubu's tilt to the market 24th August 2023 Anger on the streets is mounting in the wake of spiralling food and fuel Hailed by bankers and foreign investors, President Bola Tinubu's decisions to end fuel subsidies and float the naira have collided with reality. The measures are fuelling the highest...