Vol 53 No 6 | NIGERIA Oil cuts as Delta erupts 16th March 2012 Piracy and militant attacks are cutting oil production in the Niger Delta as the government struggles with northern insurgents As the government contends with a Boko Haram militia determined to make the north ungovernable, a new round of attacks has erupted in the oil-producing Niger Delta. Apart...
Vol 53 No 6 | NIGERIA Abacha’s ghost and Boko Haram 16th March 2012 Security agents trying to disentangle the roots and widening network of the Boko Haram militia have identified links with a group of senior military and police officers who...
Vol 53 No 3 | NIGERIA How terror came to Kano 3rd February 2012 Boko Haram’s latest massacre raised more questions about the government’s security policy and the responsibility of northern leaders Since the killing of more than 185 people in Kano on 20 January, southern Nigerian politicians have been railing at Northern and Muslim leaders for their failure to...
Vol 53 No 3 | NIGERIA The shape of the deadly sect 3rd February 2012 Boko Haram has a supreme leader and a consultative body, the Shura. The leader, Abubakar Shekau, was second-in-command until Mohammed Yusuf was killed in police custody in July...
Vol 53 No 2 | NIGERIA How the fuel row caught fire 20th January 2012 An unwieldy and spontaneous opposition has won its first battle against the government; now it needs a strategy Nobody in government, least of all President Goodluck Jonathan, seemed prepared for the torrent of opposition excited by the decision to end fuel subsidies. This doubled the retail...
Vol 53 No 2 | NIGERIA Sanusi hits out at subsidy racket 20th January 2012 Almost alone among his colleagues in government, Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Sanusi Lamido Aminu Sanusi has made a credible case for the removal of fuel subsidies*. He...
Vol 53 No 1 | NIGERIA A year of living dangerously 6th January 2012 Northern and Delta insurgents, oil companies and angry citizens threaten President Jonathan’s reform plans For a year that was meant to presage Nigeria’s great economic leap forward, 2012 could hardly have opened more inauspiciously. First came President Goodluck Jonathan’s declaration of a...
Vol 53 No 1 | NIGERIA How the economy defies politics 6th January 2012 Insulated from political chaos, this year’s budget assumes a gross domestic product growth rate of 7.2%. The International Monetary Fund reckons it may be just under 7%. Early...
Vol 52 No 25 | NIGERIA Inside the security hierarchy 16th December 2011 Who's who in the line-up against Boko Haram?
Vol 52 No 24 | NIGERIA The unprosecutables 2nd December 2011 Rumours of Farida Waziri’s imminent demise as head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had been circulating for weeks before President Goodluck Jonathan administered the coup de...