Nigeria

The following dramatis personae have key roles in events scrutinised by the Oputa Panel...

Did they jump or were they pushed? The retirement on 24 April of the Chief of Army Staff, General Victor Malu; Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Ibrahim Mahmud Alfa; and Chief of Nav...

Negotiators from giant Nigeria and tiny São Tomé e Príncipe hope to conclude a landmark agreement to settle a border dispute at talks due to begin in Sã...

Nigeria is questioning the legitimacy of much of the US$27 million debt claimed by the Paris Club of Western government creditors. Almost unprecedentedly, the meeting on 26-27 Octo...

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 major...

Privatisation is keenly favoured by the international community and - for quite different reasons - by Nigeria's own business people. President Olusegun Obasanjo's privatisation pl...

President Olusegun Obasanjo, a Yoruba, is a Nigerian first. His efforts to reestablish the nation after two decades of misrule are now at risk from violence involving its two bigge...

As political crisis succeeds political crisis - insurgency in the Niger Delta, Yoruba separatism, Sharia and born-again Biafra campaigners - a new battle for power and influence is...

President Olusegun Obasanjo's security structure works as follows...

Nwankwo Kanu of Nigeria, the current African Player of the Year who now plys his trade in Britain after spells in Holland and Italy, is telling British newspapers that he is unhapp...