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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 42 No 15
  • 27/07/2001

2003 starts here

The coming elections are about the survival of Nigeria's federation as much as President Obasanjo's career

  • Vol 42 No 15
  • 27/07/2001

Politics dead or alive

The ruling People's Democratic Party, with 209 of the 348 seats in the National Assembly and 59 of the 103 seats in the Senate, enters the electoral race with a commanding lead and all the advantages of incumbency in the presidency and several state gover...

  • Vol 42 No 15
  • 27/07/2001

Murder, pillage, scandal

Military men are portrayed as clowns, thieves and psychopaths in a human rights tribunal

  • Vol 42 No 15
  • 27/07/2001

Who's who in the military plots

The following dramatis personae have key roles in events scrutinised by the Oputa Panel...

  • Vol 42 No 9
  • 04/05/2001

Exit top brass

Big policy differences are behind the departure of three military chiefs

  • Vol 42 No 1
  • 12/01/2001

Big brother

Negotiators from giant Nigeria and tiny São Tomé e Príncipe hope to conclude a landmark agreement to settle a border dispute at talks due to begin in São Tomé on 25 January. The dispute centres on an undemarcated maritim...

  • Vol 41 No 22
  • 10/11/2000

Hard loans

Nigeria is questioning the legitimacy of much of the US$27 million debt claimed by the Paris Club of Western government creditors. Almost unprecedentedly, the meeting on 26-27 October between Nigeria and the Club broke up with no agreement on how to regul...

  • Vol 41 No 21
  • 27/10/2000

High street havens

The search for Abacha's stolen money has led to several major Western banks and is at last forcing their governments to act

  • Vol 41 No 21
  • 27/10/2000

Power and greed

Privatisation is keenly favoured by the international community and - for quite different reasons - by Nigeria's own business people. President Olusegun Obasanjo's privatisation plans, although behind schedule, are gathering momentum as an expensive gover...

  • Vol 41 No 21
  • 27/10/2000

Oduduwa's children

Some of the fiercest opposition to President Obasanjo comes from his western region

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