Vol 65 No 3 | NIGERIA Shock therapy keeps the people waiting 1st February 2024 Dollar-rich investors have reacted to President Tinubu's radical reforms by rushing to the door President Bola Tinubu's great gamble that shock therapy – ending subsidies and devaluing the naira – would bring back foreign capital and stabilise state finances isn't working. Instead,...
Vol 51 No 11 | NIGERIA Reformers, politicians and generals 28th May 2010 Three groups are emerging within the governing People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
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 61 No 24 | NIGERIA Protest, what protest? 3rd December 2020 Official denials over the Lekki shootings fail to stand up against the mounting evidence, while activists are targeted in a clampdown Nigerian government officials continue to downplay the army shootings at youth-led protests against the rogue Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) police unit in October, and are doubling down on...
Vol 39 No 13 | NIGERIA Revolving doors in Abuja 26th June 1998 Abuja’s hoteliers are among the most obvious beneficiaries of General SaniAbacha’ sdemiseon8June.Sincethen,theinlandcapital’ s hotels and guest houses have been full of would-be advisors, influence- pedlars, contract-seekers and curious...