Vol 58 No 16 | NIGERIAUNITED KINGDOM Trading places and faces 4th August 2017 A web of commodity, oil and property companies face growing scrutiny as Nigerian and British investigators collaborate As Britain's long-running investigations into Nigerian former Oil Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke move towards a finale in October, they have now snagged a clutch of ambitious Nig...
Vol 58 No 16 | NIGERIA Letting a crisis go to waste 4th August 2017 President Buhari's supporters insist he's about to take back the reins of office and all bets are off for the 2019 election Politicians from Chicago to China insist that lurking behind every crisis is an opportunity. Nigeria has been putting that adage to the test, first with the crashing oil prices and...
Vol 58 No 15 | NIGERIAUNITED STATES Diezani in their sights 21st July 2017 The net tightens around former Oil Minister Allison-Madueke as US prosecutors target her business partners' assets The filing of a US$144 million assets recovery case in Houston on 14 July points to substantive progress in international investigations into tens of billions of dollars of oil con...
Vol 58 No 14 | NIGERIA Polarisation politics 7th July 2017 Efforts to enflame north-south relations have triggered widespread condemnation and revived memories of the civil war Of all the fights to pick in Nigeria, attacking the Igbo people is probably the most incendiary. Perhaps that was the motivation of the northern Arewa Youth Consultative Forum last...
Vol 58 No 11 | NIGERIA A date with destiny 26th May 2017 Expectations are building about a statement on 29 May – the mid-point of Muhammadu Buhari's presidential term When the army chief warns politicians to stop approaching 'officers and soldiers for undisclosed political reasons', as General Tukur Buratai did on 16 May, and the government's to... READ FOR FREE
Vol 58 No 10 | NIGERIA Bitter pills for the politicians 12th May 2017 The lack of reliable information about Buhari's health has prompted ambitious politicians to seek to replace him in 2019, or before If the management of news about President Muhammadu Buhari's illness had been deliberately designed to sow fear and despondency in the nation, its authors could hardly have done a ... READ FOR FREE
Vol 58 No 10 | NIGERIA An avenger unmasked 12th May 2017 All the masked vigilantes in comic books have secret identities but few expected a member of the Niger Delta Avengers, one of the region's most effective militant groups, to be a m...
Vol 58 No 8 | NIGERIA Ambition and ethics 14th April 2017 Politicking ahead of the 2019 elections and the derailing of the anti-corruption campaign frustrate President Buhari's team In the four weeks since his return from medical leave in London, President Muhammadu Buhari has struggled to regain the initiative. This comes against a background of intensifying ...
Vol 58 No 7 | NIGERIAUNITED KINGDOM The great oil chase 31st March 2017 A joint British-Nigerian probe into how tens of billions of dollars of oil money went missing promises to be the most thorough yet Oil industry experts calculate that Nigeria may have lost US$100 billion from 2010 to 2015 from outright theft and excessively disadvantageous production and trading deals. Audits ...
Vol 58 No 6 | NIGERIA Mega-projects await reforms 17th March 2017 With President Buhari back from sick leave, questions multiply about the timing and content of the economic rescue plan Hopes for Africa’s biggest economy are yo-yoing as policy-makers argue over radical reform of the naira exchange rate and the sale of government stakes in oil and gas assets....