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Nigeria

Population: 144.7 million
GNI: $92400 million
Debt: $3,096 million
Overview:

Courtroom battles over last year's elections may trigger a major political upset as oil and gas revenues plummet. Banks and telecoms companies are shelving big new investments.

Intrigue surrounding the President's kidney ailment has increased political uncertainty.

 

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  • Vol 46 No 7
  • 01/04/2005

What Cheney knew

United States Vice-President Dick Cheney could face questioning by a US Grand Jury about his knowledge - or lack of it - of US$180 million of illegal payments linked to Nigeria's $10 billion gas export plant.

  • Vol 46 No 5
  • 04/03/2005

Reform on the rack

Time is running out for President Obasanjo's team to make a lasting difference

  • Vol 46 No 2
  • 21/01/2005

Ogbeh walks out

The ruling party Chairman's resignation is upsetting plans for the election in 2007

  • Vol 45 No 20
  • 08/10/2004

Day of the locusts

Asari and his foes have pulled back from the brink in the Niger Delta but the threat remains

  • Vol 45 No 19
  • 24/09/2004

Swelling the great gas balloon

In camera testimony to a French judge drags more names through the Nigeriagate scandal

  • Vol 45 No 19
  • 24/09/2004

The Tesler tapes

Operating out of a modest solicitor's office in the north London suburb of Tottenham, Jeffrey Tesler cuts an improbable figure as the multi-millionaire agent arbitrating among heads of state, the world's biggest oil companies and Swiss bankers. Tesler'...

  • Vol 45 No 18
  • 10/09/2004

Guns, gangs and oil

Troops are moving into Port Harcourt, the oil capital, to suppress the gangster rebels

  • Vol 45 No 18
  • 10/09/2004

On the bribe trail

Questions are mounting about the involvement of United States' oil services company Halliburton in the distribution of US$180 million of allegedly corrupt payments on a $10 billion gas export project in Nigeria made while Dick Cheney (now US Vice-Presi...

  • Vol 45 No 15
  • 21/07/2004

Delta damages

By helicopter and canoe, people flee the violence; oil companies count the cost

  • Vol 45 No 14
  • 09/07/2004

The net widens

Officials in Abuja are intensifying a probe into commissions of more than US$180 million on a gas export plant following Africa Confidential's report last month that Nigeria's biggest construction company Julius Berger (and its German parent company, Bilf...

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