Vol 49 No 10 | NIGERIA The gas ghost keeps haunting 9th May 2008 US investigators say they have new evidence of corruption by international companies working on Nigeria's gas export plant Criminal investigators in the United States and Europe are widening their probe into claims that the USA's oil service giant Halliburton and three other multinationals working on a...
Vol 49 No 10 | NIGERIA Wojciech Chodan, Pepys and Shell 9th May 2008 The discovery by Halliburton's lawyers Baker Botts of more than 500 pages of notes penned by Wojciech Chodan (a Halliburton consultant and the Samuel Pepys of the energy...
Vol 49 No 9 | NIGERIA Open season on Obasanjo 25th April 2008 Allegations of corruption under the last government are dividing the ruling parties and raising questions about the new order’s durability The humiliation of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo is forging ahead, less than a year after he left office. In the past few months, parliamentary committees have exposed allegations of...
Vol 49 No 9 | NIGERIA Unhealthy prospects 25th April 2008 If nothing else, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has proved wrong those critics who claimed he would be a mere puppet of his predecessor, Olusegun Obasanjo. Both men lead...
Vol 49 No 8 | NIGERIAOIL AND GAS Nigeria takes on Big Oil 11th April 2008 President Umaru Yar'Adua has launched a thorough restructuring of the state-owned energy sector and a review of commercial contracts. His reform team hopes to bring in partners like...
Vol 49 No 5 | NIGERIA Technical knock-out 29th February 2008 President Yar'Adua's supporters say his election tribunal victory will free his government to move on reforms The verdict was emphatic. On 26 February, Justice James Ogebe and his four colleagues on the Presidential Election Tribunal in Abuja voted 5-0 to dismiss the petitions brought...
Vol 49 No 3 | NIGERIA Judgment day is coming 1st February 2008 The courts are taking the lead in resolving the election crisis in Abuja - even if that creates new political problems The rival factions in the political drama in Abuja agree on one thing: the legal and political battles over the legitimacy of the 2007 elections will rumble on...
Vol 49 No 3 | NIGERIA Oil and Abuja: A rockier relationship 1st February 2008 Relations between multinational oil companies and the government of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua are deteriorating. The big oil companies are talking of a chronic financing crisis. Tony Chukwueke,...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 12 | NIGERIACHINA Xu Jianguo 7th November 2008 China's Ambassador to Nigeria Ambassador to Africa’s biggest oil producer, Xu Jianguo has presided over a rapid expansion of commercial and diplomatic ties since his posting to Abuja in September 2006. Chinese...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 6 | NIGERIACHINA A $50 Billion Handshake 7th November 2008 Beijing may not want much to do with Nigeria A sizable and much-ballyhooed credit line looks to be little more than a goodwill gesture from China to Nigeria, promising much but delivering little. The brief fanfare attached to the initial...