Nigeria

The legacy of writer-campaigner Ken Saro-Wiwa a decade after his execution is secure. Saro-Wiwa put the worsening political and environmental crisis of the Niger Delta, the country's key...

Ken Saro-Wiwa was a dangerous separatist 'who presented himself as an environmentalist and human rights activist before the international community', who was guilty of heinous crimes that demanded...

Hopes of a ceasefire or even a deal between President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice-President Atiku Abubakar have evaporated despite high level attempts at reconciliation (AC Vol 46 No...

Locked in a deadly embrace, President Olusegun Obasanjo and his deputy Atiku Abubakar look like two men struggling on a cliff edge as they try to hurl each...

If the battle between President Olusegun Obasanjo and his deputy, Atiku Abubakar, is fired by the presidential race in 2007, what will happen if neither of them runs?...

Nigeria's biggest ever oil licensing round this weekend will test President Olusegun Obasanjo's bold promises to fight corruption, which helped to secure a massive write-off on the country's...

Investigators searching for hundreds of millions of dollars of corrupt payments linked to Nigeria's gas export plant have uncovered new channels for the payments through Kenya's Transnational Bank...

Wojciech Chodan, an executive with Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR), has emerged as the Samuel Pepys of the Nigeria gas scandal. At many key meetings, Chodan...

Basking in the glory of securing a two-thirds cut in Nigeria's US$34 billion foreign debt and the more ambiguous achievement of being British Prime Minister Tony Blair's new...

Ministerial resignations and dismissals in São Tomé and indignant denials of corruption in Nigeria follow the 31 May award of five blocks in the two countries' Joint Development...