Vol 59 No 21 | NIGERIA The flight into Israel 26th October 2018 The leader of the supposed Igbo independence movement, Nwannekaenyi 'Nnamdi' Kenny Okwu Kanu, seems to have turned up in Israel after going on the run from a trial...
Vol 50 No 25 | NIGERIA Nigeria's succession: the candidates 18th December 2009 Should President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's health problems cause him to withdraw from office, a number of People's Democratic Party (PDP) notables are poised to ascend.
Vol 53 No 22 | NIGERIA The $100 billion bash 2nd November 2012 Government efforts to ignore a comprehensive new report on oil and gas industry corruption arouse deep suspicions Findings by a government-commissioned task force that over US$100 billion has been siphoned off from Nigeria’s oil and gas industry since 2002 is causing a political storm. It...
Vol 57 No 24 | NIGERIA Army's 'Biafra' overreaction 2nd December 2016 Five years ago, the movement for a separate Igbo nation, Biafra, seemed dead in the water of the Niger Delta. Fighting between leaders of the secessionist Movement for...
Vol 50 No 7 | NIGERIAECONOMY Homemade toxic assets 3rd April 2009 After some stellar years of expansion, the financial sector faces a deepening crisis The uncertainty about the future of Central Bank Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo reflects the drift in Nigeria’s policy over the past 18 months. Soludu, who was appointed in...