Vol 59 No 21 | NIGERIA Now the race looks serious 26th October 2018 The challenger Atiku Abubakar has built a new coalition, but strong northern support for President Buhari will give him staying power Hell froze over in Nigeria on 11 October. That's when former President Olusegun Obasanjo endorsed his once Vice-President and newly crowned leader of the opposition People's Democratic Party... READ FOR FREE
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 59 No 19 | NIGERIA Big business gets stuck into the elections 28th September 2018 A string of corporate fraud cases is stirring up partisan rivalries ahead of next year’s presidential vote Prosecutors in Milan began to set out their case against oil giants Royal Dutch Shell and Italy's ENI in court on 26 September. Both companies are charged with... READ FOR FREE
Vol 59 No 17 | NIGERIA Blame game scuppers reform 31st August 2018 After ten years of drafting, the National Assembly has produced an unworkable bill to restructure the petroleum industry Plans to modernise the national oil industry have been derailed again by partisan politics and vested interests in a debacle that could cost Nigeria tens of billions of...
Vol 59 No 16 | NIGERIA Barbarians at the gate 10th August 2018 A wave of defections to the main opposition party have President Buhari looking anxiously over his shoulder as elections approach The All Progressives' Congress, whose leader President Muhammadu Buhari is taking a holiday in London, has been under political siege for weeks while its senior members contemplated a...
Vol 59 No 16 | NIGERIA Politics of patronage 10th August 2018 Long-delayed legislation promises to free the oil industry from state control – but will the government want to surrender this trump card? Nigeria's governments come and go but its oil and gas governance legislation keeps rolling on. The Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) was conceived during Olusegun Obasanjo's first elected term...
Vol 59 No 15 | NIGERIA The probity contest 27th July 2018 To convince voters of his hard line on corruption, President Buhari’s prosecutors will have to win some cases at last With primaries for the 2019 election fast approaching, President Muhammadu Buhari is under pressure to push ahead with his anti-graft campaign. The Fulani herder-farmer killings and splits in...
Vol 59 No 15 | NIGERIAITALY Uncivil action 27th July 2018 Royal Dutch Shell and ENI claimed a minor victory on 20 July when the judge in the OPL 245 trial in Milan ruled that the natural resource lobbying...
Vol 59 No 14 | NIGERIA A split by any other name 13th July 2018 A new grand opposition coalition and fresh splits in the President’s party are changing calculations about next year’s elections The latest round of defections and manoeuvrings in Abuja give weight to the opposition People's Democratic Party announcement that it will lead a new Coalition of United Political...
Vol 59 No 12 | NIGERIA Militants pick their party 15th June 2018 In the oil-rich south-east, new wars are being swapped for old as politics gets murky in the run-up to the election Oil industry sources murmur that President Muhammadu Buhari's initiatives to sustain peace in the restive Niger Delta may not prevail as political dirty tricks accelerate in the run-up...