Vol 50 No 19 | NIGERIA Why the banks stay optimistic 25th September 2009 Oil, gas and Africa's biggest market keep the investors interested despite the increasingly desperate politics in Abuja ahead of the 2011 elections After six weeks of billion dollar bail-outs, high-level sackings and the arraigning in court of five top executives, Nigeria’s financial sector is still robust enough to prompt paeans...
Vol 58 No 7 | NIGERIAUNITED KINGDOM The great oil chase 31st March 2017 A joint British-Nigerian probe into how tens of billions of dollars of oil money went missing promises to be the most thorough yet Oil industry experts calculate that Nigeria may have lost US$100 billion from 2010 to 2015 from outright theft and excessively disadvantageous production and trading deals. Audits by international...
Vol 64 No 12 | NIGERIA Shell holds up clean-up payments in graft row 26th May 2023 Sacked director of Ogoniland project spells out corruption concerns in rebuke to environment ministry Shell is withholding payments towards the Ogoniland clean-up until it sees a full accounting for the disputed contracts issued to date, Africa Confidential has learned from sources in... READ FOR FREE
Vol 54 No 24 | NIGERIA Small earthquake, President slightly hurt 28th November 2013 Disarray and defections are undermining the governing party and the President but don’t yet put the opposition clearly in the lead The defection of five state governors from his party to the new opposition alliance on 26 November can hardly have surprised President Goodluck Jonathan, who has been procrastinating... READ FOR FREE
Vol 42 No 17 | NIGERIA How Sharia spread 31st August 2001 North-west Nigeria, with probably more than 30 million people, is the country's most populous zone - overwhelmingly Muslim, with significant numbers of Christians only in southern Kaduna and...