Vol 63 No 16 | NIGERIA Attacks shatter Abuja’s complacency 4th August 2022 After breaking into a prison in the capital and killing elite security officers, Islamic State fighters claim they are now targeting President Buhari As Islamist militants launch deadly assaults on the outskirts of Abuja and the country groans under a hydra-headed security crisis, enraged opposition senators have issued an ultimatum to...
Vol 63 No 13 | NIGERIA Tinubu summons the ghosts of Abacha's kleptocracy 23rd June 2022 The ruling party's flagbearer brings together democracy campaigners and beneficiaries of the country's most venal dictatorship This year's Democracy Day celebrations on 12 June were muted, overshadowed by the expensive shenanigans of the national election campaign mixed with a pervasive disenchantment with the political...
Vol 47 No 23 | NIGERIA Sekibo and the drones 17th November 2006 With President Olusegun Obasanjo's sacking of Transport Minister Abiye Sekibo on 6 October, the row over the 215 million euro (US$275.5 mn.) contract to supply aerial drones for...
Vol 45 No 13 | NIGERIA Gasmen 25th June 2004 General Ibrahim Babangida, Head of State, August 1985-August 1993. Presided over the formation of the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas joint venture but insisted the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 2 | NIGERIASOUTH KOREA A useful deal in the Delta 15th December 2009 South Korea's state-run Land and Housing Corporation is offering investments and technical cooperation in the oil-rich Niger Delta, a move that might help the ambitions of Seoul's energy companies and appeal...