Vol 46 No 18 | NIGERIA Power show 9th September 2005 The epic battle between President Obasanjo and his deputy Abubakar is jolting the fragile political system 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...
Vol 46 No 18 | NIGERIA Players on parade 9th September 2005 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?...
Vol 46 No 17 | NIGERIA Opening the gates 26th August 2005 Will a public auction of oil blocks break the cycle of patronage and corruption? 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...
Vol 46 No 15 | NIGERIA The net widens 22nd July 2005 Having uncovered illegal commissions of $170 million on the gas export plant, investigators have uncovered many more payment routes 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...
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 46 No 14 | NIGERIA Talking it over 8th July 2005 Against expectation, the national conference is becoming a force for change 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...
Vol 46 No 12 | NIGERIASÃO TOMÉ & PRÍNCIPE Blood over oil 10th June 2005 Political mayhem follows the latest oil block awards in the Joint Development Zone 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...
Vol 46 No 12 | NIGERIA Brassed off: a contractor under fire 10th June 2005 In the badlands of the Niger Delta a dispute over an oil-loading contract shows the often corrosive relationship between multinational oil companies, government officials and local militia fighters....
Vol 46 No 11 | NIGERIA Battles of Boro's ghost 27th May 2005 The struggle in the Delta heats up again as foreign reserves top $21 billion Deep in the oil-rich Niger Delta, the Ijaw people are fighting over the ghost of nationalist hero Isaac Jasper Boro. At stake are the political allegiances of the...