As President Buhari looks to his legacy, the jostling for succession will begin in earnest
In May, President Muhammadu Buhari will reach the halfway point of his second and final four-year term. It is that point in Nigeria's political calendar, when the main players' foc...
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Official denials over the Lekki shootings fail to stand up against the mounting evidence, while activists are targeted in a clampdown
Nigerian government officials continue to downplay the army shootings at youth-led protests against the rogue Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) police unit in October, and are doub...
With Map: Recent Boko Haram activity: bombings, shootings, kidnappings, jailbreaks
At face value, the declaration by President Goodluck Jonathan’s government, dominated by appointees from the oil-rich Niger Delta, of a state of emergency in north-east Nigeria and...
Despite corruption worries and a row with Obasanjo over the crisis in the north, President Jonathan prepares to stand in the 2015 elections
Election billboards in the business district of Abuja calling for President Goodluck Jonathan to stand for election again in 2015 opened the political season of the New Year. Jona...
A long history of failure does not discourage Western leaders
who believe their intervention can improve conditions in the oil-rich
Niger Delta. Yet judging from recent history, the capacity of
outside intervention to make things even worse in the Delta looks
assured. After the United States' stalled efforts at training
Nigeria's military and Royal Dutch Shell's attempts at corporate
responsibility, Britain and France have offered military assistance
to tackle continuing violence in the Delta.
Offering military assistance to a country that did not request it is extremely bad manners, responded a seasoned Nigerian analyst after French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Britis...