Vol 51 No 5 | NIGERIA On her Majesty's Secret Service 5th March 2010 Wits in Abuja have taken to referring to First Lady Turai Yar’Adua as ‘Her Majesty’ and her coterie of apparatchiks as the ‘Secret Service’. She organised the clandestine...
Vol 59 No 5 | NIGERIAITALY Abuja comes to Milan 9th March 2018 Grandly billed by anti-graft lobbyists as the biggest corporate bribery trial in history, Italy's attempt to prosecute its national oil company ENI and Royal Dutch Shell for paying...
Vol 43 No 3 | NIGERIA New parties, new plots 8th February 2002 The chief sponsor of the new party movement is Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, the former military leader who bankrolls the United National Democratic Party (UNDP), run by the veteran...
Vol 58 No 16 | NIGERIAUNITED KINGDOM Trading places and faces 4th August 2017 A web of commodity, oil and property companies face growing scrutiny as Nigerian and British investigators collaborate As Britain's long-running investigations into Nigerian former Oil Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke move towards a finale in October, they have now snagged a clutch of ambitious Nigerian businessmen and...
Vol 38 No 19 | NIGERIA Oil glistens 26th September 1997 General Sani Abacha's regime may be a pariah for Western and Commonwealth governments but it's determined to win friends in his own region. Not content with being Chairman...