Vol 51 No 1 | NIGERIA The elite scrambles for cover 8th January 2010 Desperate to stop the crisis over President Yar’Adua’s illness from spinning out of control, senior politicians plot compromise deals Politicians in Abuja currently have two main imperatives: to forestall a military coup and to prevent war restarting in the Niger Delta (AC Vol 50 No 25). They fear either developm...
Vol 51 No 1 | NIGERIA A khaki option on the table 8th January 2010 Nigeria’s military, though much diminished, still sees itself as the last truly national institution and the final custodian of the state. If the current crisis unravels, senior of...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 12 | NIGERIACHINA Spooks, not railways 21st October 2010 Abuja wants to use Chinese export finance to build a spy network with the controversial ZTE company – instead of a railway Security experts reckon that cyber warfare and espionage will be this century’s new battlegrounds. With that in view, Beijing is now considering whether to allow the Nigerian gover...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 12 | NIGERIAINDIA India follows China’s lead 21st October 2010 Wherever China goes in Nigeria, India tends not to be too far behind. Chinese contractors may have landed all of the major railway deals in Nigeria (AAC Vol 3 No 4), but Indian man...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 9 | NIGERIACHINAINDIA Beijing gazumps New Delhi 20th July 2010 China's state companies advance billion-dollar oil and banking deals while India's plans are now on hold The Lagos State government, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and the China State Construction Engineering Corporation signed an US$8 billion deal this month for a 300,...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 9 | NIGERIACHINA Telecom troubles 20th July 2010 Plans to sell the state-owned Nigeria Telecommunications (Nitel) have floundered after China Unicom announced it would not be contributing to the front-running New Generation Con...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 7 | NIGERIACHINA Oiling the gears 20th May 2010 Beijing’s biggest African offer yet is a risky gambit to gain a major stake in the upstream and downstream sectors of Nigeria’s oil business Equal measures of optimism and scepticism greeted China’s announcement of an agreement to build three oil refineries worth US$23 billion. The terms of the memorandum of understan...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 4 | NIGERIACHINABRIEFING Beijing's builders are back 12th February 2010 The on-again off-again plan to renovate the railway linking coastal Lagos to Kano in the north may formally start up this year, but questions about the validity of any contract s...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 2 | NIGERIAINDIASOUTH KOREA It's not over until it's over 15th December 2009 After winning back its oil acreage, South Korea offers pipelines, a power station and negotiations with its commercial rivals After winning a court battle over the Nigerian government's attempt to cancel its oil production licences, South Korea's Korea National Oil Corporation is offering to finance bil...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 2 | NIGERIASOUTH KOREA A useful deal in the Delta 15th December 2009 South Korea's state-run Land and Housing Corporation is offering investments and technical cooperation in the oil-rich Niger Delta, a move that might help the ambitions of Seoul'...