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 54 No 10 | SIERRA LEONE Not an honorary consul 10th May 2013 The Italian businessman who claims to have been cheated by Ibrahima Bah over gold deals, Vittorio Narciso Ruello, made other interesting connections through Bah in the region. In...
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 45 No 13 | NIGERIA At a crossroads 25th June 2004 An awkward defendant helps to uncover a secret commissions system The investigations into Nigeria's Liquefied Natural Gas project span three continents and are a major test of international resolve to combat corruption. In France, it is the biggest...
Vol 39 No 9 | NIGERIA Army arguments 1st May 1998 The coup plot trial has brought some military divisions to the surface The death sentences handed down on 28 April to six convicted coup plotters - all from the Yoruba south-west - will do little to settle the unease in...