Nigeria

Nigeria

Population: 165 mn.
GDP: 273 bn.
Debt: 7.9 bn.
Overview: Growth will falter as security worries increase in the north and Middle Belt. Criticism will grow of President Goodluck Jonathan and Oil Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke's management of the oil industry. The military will be tested hard at home against Boko Haram and in Mali. Northern politicians will organise against Jonathan's government

 

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  • Vol 54 No 9
  •  26th April 2013

Opposition on all fronts

A new political alliance to confront President Jonathan is gathering pace as security conditions – north and south – deteriorate

  • Vol 54 No 9
  •  26th April 2013

Law suits unravel

The United States Supreme Court decided on 17 April to back a lower court’s refusal to hear a suit brought by Nigerians against Royal Dutch Shell for complicity in Nigerian government atrocities in Ogoniland in 1992-1995. Anxiously awaited, the ruling p...

  • Vol 54 No 7
  •  29th March 2013

Beggar your pardon

As computer software billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates visited child health projects in Ghana on 26 March, controversy raged in Nigeria, where he had cancelled a similar trip on the following two days. Gates had been scheduled to meet Presid...

  • Vol 54 No 6
  •  15th March 2013

Taking the hostage road

Kidnapping is on the increase as Nigeria’s two main Islamist terrorist groups follow different paths

  • Vol 54 No 5
  •  1st March 2013

No visible means of support

Oppositionists unite and governing party dissidents plot against him but the President is fighting back, armed with state and business patronage

  • Vol 54 No 5
  •  1st March 2013

Eko Atlantic arises from the sea bed

A lavish launch on 21 February for Eko Atlantic City brought the political and business elite into an awkward communion. On reclaimed land adjacent to the upmarket Victoria Island area of Lagos, the controversial Eko Atlantic consists of some 5 million sq...

  • Vol 54 No 5
  •  1st March 2013

Trust question

Concern is growing in the Niger Delta over the fate of the charitable trust set up with US$5 million of the 2009 $15.5 mn. settlement that Shell made with the relatives of the late Ogoni leader Ken Saro-Wiwa and others. The state hanged Saro-Wiwa and h...

  • Vol 54 No 2
  •  18th January 2013

Abuja’s foreign legion

The troops now on their way to Mali to fight alongside the French are extending the campaign against Boko Haram

  • Vol 54 No 1
  •  11th January 2013

Early start for Jonathan

Despite corruption worries and a row with Obasanjo over the crisis in the north, President Jonathan prepares to stand in the 2015 elections

  • Vol 53 No 24
  •  30th November 2012

Boko Haram looks to Mali

As the army steps up its crackdown, the Islamist militia’s leaders are strengthening their ties with northern Mali

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