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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 50 No 11
  •  29th May 2009

National, not regional

The military crackdown in the Niger Delta upsets the awkward balance between federal and state politics

  • Vol 50 No 10
  •  15th May 2009

Votes that don't add up

The rumpus over the rerun governorship election in Ekiti State on 25 April has become a symbol of the national crisis

  • Vol 50 No 10
  •  15th May 2009

Welome back, Chief Tony

The return of Anthony Anenih as Chairman of the Nigeria Ports Authority says more about the President's ethical standards than Anenih's technical skills

  • Vol 50 No 9
  •  1st May 2009

Do or die

'Politics is a do or die affair,' according to a founder of the ruling People's Democratic Party and former head of state Olusegun Obasanjo. Some of his party militants have been taking the adage literally in the rerun of the Ekiti State governorship elec...

  • Vol 50 No 8
  •  17th April 2009

The Halliburton trials

Weeks after Information Minister Dora Akunyili announced a campaign to rehabilitate Nigeria’s international image, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s government faces the strongest test of its corruption-fighting credentials in its response to the internatio...

  • Vol 50 No 7
  •  3rd April 2009

Homemade toxic assets

After some stellar years of expansion, the financial sector faces a deepening crisis

  • Vol 50 No 5
  •  6th March 2009

Tesler trapped

Officers from Britain’s Serious Fraud Office arrested lawyer Jeffrey Tesler, 60, at his offices in Tottenham in London on 5 March in a move that will widen the international investigation into corrupt payments in Nigeria’s US$6 billion liquefied natural g...

  • Vol 50 No 3
  •  6th February 2009

Why Jos burned

A vicious mix of ethnic and religious politics set the Middle Belt capital alight and has now caused a row with the presidency

  • Vol 50 No 2
  •  23rd January 2009

A gathering storm

Plummeting oil prices, rising inflation and a chaotic foreign exchange market challenge the new economic team

  • Vol 50 No 2
  •  23rd January 2009

New rules for the oil business

Oil Minister Rilwanu Lukman is preparing to present a 175-page bill to the National Assembly on the restructuring and management of the oil and gas sector. The contents will reflect the recommendations of the findings of the Oil and Gas Sectors Reform Imp...

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