Vol 62 No 19 | NIGERIA State taxes boost devolution 23rd September 2021 A push for regional states to collect and spend their own VAT is gathering steam, as Lagos passes its own new tax law Nigeria's Supreme Court is set to rule on the right of states to individually collect and spend value-added taxes in their domain in a landmark case that could dramatically alter t...
Vol 59 No 16 | NIGERIA Barbarians at the gate 10th August 2018 A wave of defections to the main opposition party have President Buhari looking anxiously over his shoulder as elections approach The All Progressives' Congress, whose leader President Muhammadu Buhari is taking a holiday in London, has been under political siege for weeks while its senior members contemplate...
Vol 45 No 18 | NIGERIA On the bribe trail 10th September 2004 Questions are mounting about the involvement of United States' oil services company Halliburton in the distribution of US$180 million of allegedly corrupt payments on a $10 billion...
Vol 52 No 20 | NIGERIAGULF OF GUINEAPIRACY The Security Council lands a new African problem 7th October 2011 Nigeria calls a debate on worsening piracy in the Gulf of Guinea The United Nations Security Council does not lack for African problems: the continent’s woes take up about three quarters of the Council’s time. Later this month, a new issue will ...
Vol 59 No 4 | NIGERIA 'Feigned lawsuit' bid to foil US 23rd February 2018 US authorities say bogus litigation is being used to try to prevent the seizure of Nigerian oil traders' assets A string of unusual lawsuits is frustrating law-enforcement agencies' attempts to seize assets belonging to oil traders accused of becoming extraordinarily wealthy because they wer...