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Nigeria

Population: 144.7 million
GNI: $92400 million
Debt: $3,096 million
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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 45 No 13
  • 25/06/2004

Gas leak

International investigations into corruption allegations could prove politically explosive

  • Vol 45 No 13
  • 25/06/2004

Gasmen

General Ibrahim Babangida, Head of State, August 1985-August 1993. Presided over the formation of the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas joint venture but insisted the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation should have a majority stake and manage...

  • Vol 45 No 13
  • 25/06/2004

Gas timetable

17 May 1989: Incorporation of Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited. NLNG Board with representatives from the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Shell Gas BV, ENI International (formerly Agip Oil), Total (formerly Elf-Aquitaine). ...

  • Vol 45 No 13
  • 25/06/2004

At a crossroads

An awkward defendant helps to uncover a secret commissions system

  • Vol 45 No 13
  • 25/06/2004

Shell-shocked

Shell is both a victim and a prime cause of the social calamity in the Niger Delta

  • Vol 45 No 11
  • 28/05/2004

No turning back

The state of emergency in Plateau escalates the President's confrontation with state governors

  • Vol 45 No 5
  • 05/03/2004

Anenih's irresistible rise

A mysterious murder affects the ruling PDP and probably the next poll

  • Vol 45 No 5
  • 05/03/2004

Blowback

Investigations in France, Nigeria and the United States into claims that the US company Halliburton was party to a US$180 million slush fund to bribe Nigerian officials are growing in political significance. Two familiar questions are asked of US Vice-Pre...

  • Vol 45 No 2
  • 23/01/2004

More petro-nairas

The unions lose another battle to Obasanjo's campaign to open up the oil business

  • Vol 45 No 2
  • 23/01/2004

The other General

President Olusegun Obasanjo's rival in last year's contest, retired general and former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85) was in London last week for medical treatment and to drum up international support for his continued rejection of last year's ...

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