Vol 46 No 15 | NIGERIA Notes on a scandal 22nd July 2005 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...
Vol 53 No 11 | NIGERIA Fuel fraud fans public anger 25th May 2012 Jonathan has to choose between penalising his friends and the final collapse of his government’s credibility over the fuel subsidy racket The belated announcement by President Goodluck Jonathan on 22 May that he wants the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to act on the US$6.8 billion fuel subsidy fraud...
Vol 39 No 4 | SIERRA LEONE Kabbah's comeback 20th February 1998 The returning civilian government faces empty coffers and a continuing rebellion Sierra Leoneans were surprised at the efficiency and speed with which the West African peace keeping forces (Ecomog) toppled Major Johnny Paul Koroma’s military Revolutionary United Front junta....
Vol 65 No 20 | NIGERIA Manufacturing consent and criminalising dissent 3rd October 2024 A split opposition allows President Tinubu to co-opt parliament and crack down hard on protestors Many Nigerians say the country is going through the worst hardship for 30 years, with an economy blighted by spiralling prices, capital flight and grand corruption. And rights...
Vol 58 No 20 | NIGERIA Homage to Catalonia 6th October 2017 As their central governments fight secessionists this week, Nigeria and Spain discover they have a few things in common Proponents of Biafra as an independent state in south-east Nigeria have seized upon the Spanish government's mishandling of the Catalonian secessionists to score propaganda points against President Muhammadu... READ FOR FREE