Vol 56 No 25 | NIGERIA Taking down Tompolo 18th December 2015 As politics fizz and oil prices crash, the government targets the capo di tutti i capi of the Niger Delta militants One of the shrewdest and wealthiest militant leaders in the Niger Delta, High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, faces a legal battle that could provoke a new political...
Vol 52 No 17 | NIGERIAOIL AND GAS It's urgent? Set up a committee 26th August 2011 As the Bodo case was being settled, a damning United Nations report estimated the cost of an environmental clean-up in Ogoni at US$1 billion over up to 30...
Vol 55 No 1 | NIGERIA Goodluck Jonathan loses the numbers game 20th December 2013 The defections in the House of Representatives have stripped the President's party of its majority and boost the opposition coalition This year started with a row between President Goodluck Jonathan and former President Olusegun Obasanjo; and it is ending with a second and bigger row between the two....
Vol 61 No 22 | NIGERIA Generals tighten their grip 5th November 2020 Determined to use the #EndSARS protests for their own ends, the securocrats have reasserted their role at the heart of government The Nigerian army's version of the shootings during the October protests was spelled out at a bizarre press conference in Abuja on 2 November by Attorney General Abubakar...
Vol 53 No 11 | NIGERIA Fuel fraud fans public anger 25th May 2012 Jonathan has to choose between penalising his friends and the final collapse of his government’s credibility over the fuel subsidy racket The belated announcement by President Goodluck Jonathan on 22 May that he wants the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to act on the US$6.8 billion fuel subsidy fraud...