Vol 50 No 12 | NIGERIA The hunt for Tompolo 12th June 2009 The government troops who raided the militants' hideout say they discovered secret documents listing the fighters and their political contacts The rebel commander High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, is on the run from government forces, and the war in the Niger Delta is intensifying (AC Vol 50 No 11). Some of...
Vol 61 No 15 | NIGERIA The shake-up that didn’t happen 23rd July 2020 Plummeting prices prompted a radical plan to restructure the state oil company – then the vested interests fought back Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and several of the country’s most senior ministers recommended hard-hitting reforms to rein in the sprawling and notoriously unaccountable state ...
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 too...
Vol 49 No 13 | NIGERIA The Ibori test 20th June 2008 Former Delta State Governor James Ibori faces charges of fraud and corruption in the Kaduna High Court and his wife Theresa faces money laundering charges in Britain, where she was...
Vol 39 No 3 | SIERRA LEONE Jump or be pushed 6th February 1998 Abuja is working on a military option if the Freetown junta refuses to go in April The commitment that Major Johnny Paul Koroma’s Freetown junta gave Nigeria’s Foreign Minister Tom Ikimi, to hand over power by 22 April, looks less credible by the day....