Nigeria

Nigeria

Population: 155 million
GDP: $165000 million
Debt: $3.0% of GDP
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The crisis caused by President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s health worries and its implications for change among the ruling elite will eclipse the amnesty deal and plans for banking, oil sector and electoral reform.

 

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  • Vol 51 No 16
  • 06/08/2010

Goodluck with the numbers

President Jonathan is slowly winning over the governors and party barons - but time is short

  • Vol 51 No 16
  • 06/08/2010

Political spills

A new burst of militancy is haunting the Niger Delta less than a year after the amnesty deal delivered an uneasy peace

  • Vol 51 No 16
  • 06/08/2010

Father Kukah, Professor Jega and the vote

In the Nigerian tradition of irrepressible optimism periodically suffused with brutal realism, Father Matthew Hassan Kukah argues that the last decade's attempts at democracy in Nigeria have been 'positive' and the country will hold together by 'sheer...

  • Vol 51 No 16
  • 06/08/2010

Abuja takes Halliburton to court

President Goodluck Jonathan's government is taking on the United States' oil services giant Halliburton and its Nigerian associates for organising bribes to secure contracts for the $6 billion liquefied natural gas plant on Bonny Island from 1995 to 2...

  • Vol 51 No 12
  • 11/06/2010

Welcome to London

Britain’s Metropolitan Police have told Africa Confidential that they are confident they will secure the extradition of Nigeria’s former Delta State Governor James Ibori from Dubai, ‘by the end of the summer’. This follows the conviction of Ibori’s sis...

  • Vol 51 No 11
  • 28/05/2010

Into the unknown

An exciting election looms next year: no one knows who is going to run and, more importantly, who is going to win

  • Vol 51 No 11
  • 28/05/2010

Reformers, politicians and generals

Three groups are emerging within the governing People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

  • Vol 51 No 11
  • 28/05/2010

Dangote is a Gooner

The eagerness of the United States-based private equity firm Blackstone to talk up the value of Nina Bracewell Smith’s 16% stake in Arsenal Football Club may have prompted Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote to pull out of the sale talks.

  • Vol 51 No 9
  • 30/04/2010

The gung-ho Governor

The ruling party is set to win next month’s elections amid growing criticism at home and abroad

  • Vol 51 No 8
  • 16/04/2010

A government in a hurry

In just twelve months Acting President Jonathan’s team wants to fix the power crisis, reform the NEC and reorganise the state oil company

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