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Nigeria
Population: 156 mn.
GDP: 202.5 bn.
Debt: 5.9 bn.
Overview: The northern insurgency and protests against the abolition of the US$7 bn. fuel subsidies are rocking President Goodluck Jonathan's government. Without new social and productive investment in the north the crisis will escalate and threaten national unity. 

 

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  • Vol 53 No 11
  •  25th May 2012

Fuel fraud fans public anger

Jonathan has to choose between penalising his friends and the final collapse of his government’s credibility over the fuel subsidy racket

  • Vol 53 No 9
  •  27th April 2012

Star-struck James Ibori

Delta State’s most famous son is now in prison, while accomplices and other governors walk free

  • Vol 53 No 9
  •  27th April 2012

Half-truths on subsidies

The report on the US$6.8 billion fuel subsidy fraud by the Chairman of the National Assembly Ad Hoc Committee, Farouk Lawan, was tabled on 24 April. The 210-page opus concentrates its fire on state institutions and senior civil servants. Yet Lawan had l...

  • Vol 53 No 7
  •  30th March 2012

The President tightens up

Jonathan is getting a grip on his party and perhaps preparing to run again, despite his northern rivals

  • Vol 53 No 7
  •  30th March 2012

The people who run the PDP show

• Chief Mike Oghiadomhe, Chief of Staff to the President: as Edo State Deputy Governor, he made friends with his opposite number in Bayelsa, Goodluck Jonathan. He is powerful and ruthless in Jonathan’s kitchen cabinet and the President runs the People’s D...

  • Vol 53 No 7
  •  30th March 2012

Ibori goes to Southwark

Having pleaded guilty to ten money-laundering charges and obtaining a money transfer by deception and fraud, James Onanefe Ibori, the former Governor of Delta State, will be sentenced on 16 and 17 April at London’s Southwark Crown Court (AC Vol 52 No 16...

  • Vol 53 No 6
  •  16th March 2012

Oil cuts as Delta erupts

Piracy and militant attacks are cutting oil production in the Niger Delta as the government struggles with northern insurgents

  • Vol 53 No 6
  •  16th March 2012

Abacha’s ghost and Boko Haram

Security agents trying to disentangle the roots and widening network of the Boko Haram militia have identified links with a group of senior military and police officers who held power in General Sani Abacha’s junta.

  • Vol 53 No 3
  •  3rd February 2012

How terror came to Kano

Boko Haram’s latest massacre raised more questions about the government’s security policy and the responsibility of northern leaders

  • Vol 53 No 3
  •  3rd February 2012

The shape of the deadly sect

Boko Haram has a supreme leader and a consultative body, the Shura. The leader, Abubakar Shekau, was second-in-command until Mohammed Yusuf was killed in police custody in July 2009. It is not clear how much control Shekau can maintain. Even if he were op...

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