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	Nigeria
Population:	227.71m
GDP:	$252.74bn
Debt:	46.6% of GDP (2024)

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Vol 62 No 8 |

NIGERIA

States rethink security

15th April 2021

No reaction from Abuja as state governors in the south-east, like their south-west counterparts, launch a regional security organisation

After governors of the south-eastern states met in the city of Owerri on 11 April to mull a response to a wave of deadly attacks against farmers and...

Vol 62 No 8 |

NIGERIA
ECONOMY

Much to be modest about

15th April 2021

The economy is in slightly better shape than feared months ago but faces a toxic combination of unemployment and inflation

President Muhammadu Buhari and Nigeria's economy policymakers will certainly welcome the modest improvement in the country's economic outlook. According to the Yemi Kale-led National Bureau of Statistics (NBS),...

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Vol 62 No 6 |

NIGERIA

Disappearing jobs, roller-coaster oil prices and trade rules batter the economy

22nd March 2021

The recession may worsen security clashes across the country

Youth unemployment in Nigeria is now worse than in South Africa, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in Abuja. That means that in Africa's two biggest...

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Vol 62 No 6 |

NIGERIA

Shell and Eni win in Milan

18th March 2021

Royal Dutch Shell and Italy's Eni and 13 individuals were acquitted by a Milan court in one of the world's biggest corruption cases on 17 March. After three...

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Vol 62 No 5 |

NIGERIA

Elders call for reform, warning 'things are falling apart' as bandits and insurgents step up attacks

8th March 2021

Parallel stories of economic and security breakdown are playing out without reference to each other

Some of Nigeria's most eminent cultural, diplomatic, business and religious figures warned on 6 March that the latest wave of criminality and violence was threatening the stability and...

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Vol 62 No 5 |

NIGERIA

Growing threat of bandit-insurgent collusion in spate of attacks in northern states

1st March 2021

President Buhari rejects northern state governors' planned amnesty for gangs after latest armed abductions

The grim toll of armed attacks over the past week in northern Nigeria has reopened debate about the response from the over-stretched military and under-staffed national police force....

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Vol 62 No 4 |

NIGERIA
CLIMATE CHANGE

Shell retreats from the Delta

18th February 2021

The Anglo-Dutch giant is losing its battle to fight off international lawsuits over pollution

Shell is retreating from onshore oilfields in the Niger Delta under a cloud, facing lawsuits, recriminations and so far failing to deal with some of the most serious...

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Vol 62 No 4 |

NIGERIA

Apocalyptic warnings and threats in a week of escalating violence

19th February 2021

Former head of state urges state governors to speak responsibly, reminding them of road to 1967-1970 civil war

General Abdulsalami Abubakar, who took over as head of state after the death of military leader Gen. Sani Abacha in 1998, stepped out of the shadows for a...

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Vol 62 No 3 |

NIGERIA

Farmers and fishermen free to sue Shell in landmark case

16th February 2021

Legal battles proliferate over pollution and tax as government braces for oil decline

As the pandemic recession and the push for a green energy transition hasten the winding down of the hydrocarbon economy, big oil companies are contending with falling profits...

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Vol 62 No 3 |

NIGERIA

The guard changes, at last

4th February 2021

An army on the backfoot could get more resources but will have to beef up its fight against insurgents and tackle communal clashes

Sacking the four service chiefs was one of the few things on which Nigeria's Senate, its leading civil society groups and Western ambassadors were unanimously agreed. Insiders at...

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