Nigeria

In the two years since it was elected, the National Assembly has approved just five bills, including two budget appropriations covering members' salaries.Yet representatives of constituencies outside the...

The political stand-off continued this week in Ekiti State after the Independent National Election Commission (INEC) announced the results of the governorship election on 5 May, which had...

Chief Anthony Anenih is Nigeria's ultimate political survivor. In March, 30 years after entering national politics, he was appointed Chairman of the Nigeria Port Authority, the government's second-biggest...

'Politics is a do or die affair,' according to a founder of the ruling People's Democratic Party and former head of state Olusegun Obasanjo. Some of his party...

Weeks after Information Minister Dora Akunyili announced a campaign to rehabilitate Nigeria’s international image, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s government faces the strongest test of its corruption-fighting credentials in...

The uncertainty about the future of Central Bank Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo reflects the drift in Nigeria’s policy over the past 18 months. Soludu, who was appointed in...

Officers from Britain’s Serious Fraud Office arrested lawyer Jeffrey Tesler, 60, at his offices in Tottenham in London on 5 March in a move that will widen the...

The first half of December saw the town of Jos burn, as gangs of youths took to the streets for targeted killing, criminal bloodletting and wanton destruction. By...

Oil Minister Rilwanu Lukman and Finance Minister Mansur Mukhtar are leading Nigeria's management of its worse economic crisis for two decades. The steep fall in world oil prices,...

Oil Minister Rilwanu Lukman is preparing to present a 175-page bill to the National Assembly on the restructuring and management of the oil and gas sector. The contents...