Vol 61 No 18 | NIGERIA Building back bigger 10th September 2020 Planning to spend over 20 billion dollars on grand projects, the Buhari government is raising tariffs and tolls as well as taking on more debt Many Nigerians are disappointed that, as President Muhammadu Buhari is a year into his second term, he has not done more to halt the scourge of corrupt trading...
Vol 49 No 16 | NIGERIA Yar'Adua's judges on trial 1st August 2008 Justice and politics are uneasy bedfellows under the hesitant President's new regime Since President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua came to power after a widely-criticised election and started extolling the rule of law much has changed. Yar Adua's own electoral case will...
Vol 48 No 21 | NIGERIAWORLD BANK Renaissance woman 19th October 2007 Renaissance Capital has a new Chairperson for its advisory committees on Nigeria and Africa. The World Bank has a new Managing Director. And both institutions have secured the...
Vol 51 No 6 | SIERRA LEONE Kabba on trial 19th March 2010 The energetic Director of the Anti-Corruption Commission, Abdul Tejan-Cole, is scoring some success, with the suspension of the third minister in President Ernest Bai Koroma’s government on charges...
Vol 41 No 21 | NIGERIA High street havens 27th October 2000 The search for Abacha's stolen money has led to several major Western banks and is at last forcing their governments to act Investigators pursuing some US$3 billion of funds stolen by the late General Sani Abacha's regime between 1993-98 have established that the cash was deposited in more than 30...