Vol 58 No 5 | NIGERIA Health checks 3rd March 2017 More flexibility on the exchange rate could bring down the cost of borrowing The tribulations of the Nigerian currency, the naira, might offer some respite to President Muhammadu Buhari, currently in London under doctor's orders. The prospect of a change in...
Vol 58 No 1 | NIGERIA Partisan politics runs riot 6th January 2017 The President will struggle to gain the upper hand on corruption and security while party rivalries block economic change For an essentially apolitical President, Muhammadu Buhari faces a nightmare 2017 as party rivalries loom larger and larger, obstructing many of his economic and social reforms, as ... READ FOR FREE
Vol 57 No 25 | NIGERIA Things fall apart in Rivers vote 16th December 2016 Both parties are to blame for the rigging and killings that could weaken President Buhari's national standing No one emerges with credit from the violent fiasco of the elections that were re-run in Rivers State on 10 December. Nationally, the polls were a test of strength between the All P...
Vol 57 No 24 | NIGERIA Grandees test the water 2nd December 2016 The Ondo gubernatorial election was a proving ground for political rivals within the APC camp The victory of Rotimi Akeredolu, candidate of the governing All Progressives' Congress (APC) in the Ondo State governorship election on 26 November, has strong national resonance i...
Vol 57 No 24 | NIGERIA Army's 'Biafra' overreaction 2nd December 2016 Five years ago, the movement for a separate Igbo nation, Biafra, seemed dead in the water of the Niger Delta. Fighting between leaders of the secessionist Movement for the Actualis...
Vol 57 No 23 | NIGERIA Political schisms hit recovery and reform 18th November 2016 Economic stagnation and rising prices are eroding the regional alliances at the heart of Buhari’s government Arguments over the response to the country's worst recession for 25 years are threatening to split the governing All Progressives' Congress. The APC is a fragile alliance between t... READ FOR FREE
Vol 57 No 21 | NIGERIA Buhari's kitchen cabinet 21st October 2016 President Muhammadu Buhari stirred a predictable hornets' nest when he dismissed, in a most patriarchal manner, criticisms his wife had made of his presidency. On 14 October Aisha ...
Vol 57 No 19 | NIGERIA No oil, no money, no deal 23rd September 2016 Both sides are edging towards some sort of deal that will get the money flowing again – to the Treasury and to the Delta There is an inexorable logic to the tortuous negotiations between the government and the Niger Delta Avengers, the most determined of the militant groups launching attacks in the o... READ FOR FREE
Vol 57 No 19 | NIGERIA Impatience 23rd September 2016 Patience Jonathan, wife of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has reacted with fury to Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) freezing more than US$14 million in ac...
Vol 57 No 17 | NIGERIA A dollar emergency 26th August 2016 Just as investment companies began advising clients to return to the Nigerian market to take advantage of the sharp depreciation of the naira currency over the past two months, rep...