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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 52 No 20
  •  7th October 2011

The Security Council lands a new African problem

Nigeria calls a debate on worsening piracy in the Gulf of Guinea

  • Vol 52 No 20
  •  7th October 2011

The loot looted

Suspicion has been growing in Nigeria that some of the billions recovered from corrupt public officials may have been stolen again. A human rights group, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (Serap), has filed a Freedom of Information requ...

  • Vol 52 No 18
  •  9th September 2011

All the President’s businessmen

Tycoons can boost their fortunes sponsoring political parties and many are seeking admission to Jonathan’s circle

  • Vol 52 No 18
  •  9th September 2011

Play the game

The United States was engaged in the ‘rendition’ of prisoners from Nigeria to the USA even before the attacks of 11 September 2001, according to US State Department cables newly released by WikiLeaks.

  • Vol 52 No 17
  •  26th August 2011

Who cleans up in the Delta?

A huge payout by Shell for spilling oil will not necessarily help those who suffered from the environmental damage

  • Vol 52 No 17
  •  26th August 2011

It's urgent? Set up a committee

As the Bodo case was being settled, a damning United Nations report estimated the cost of an environmental clean-up in Ogoni at US$1 billion over up to 30 years. The report airs many of the issues involved in the cycle of blame, including the extent to wh...

  • Vol 52 No 16
  •  5th August 2011

Governors on top and on trial

Presiding over billion-dollar budgets and assured of immunity in office, everything changes for state governors when they retire

  • Vol 52 No 16
  •  5th August 2011

The strange case of the ex-Governors

Asiawaju Bola Tinubu, James Ibori and Diepreye Alamieyeseigha stand at extremes on the spectrum of life after Government House (see Feature). There are several points in between. Plateau’s Joshua Chibi Dariye (1999-2007) survived a money-laundering arrest...

  • Vol 52 No 15
  •  22nd July 2011

Maiduguri's terror crisis

Styling themselves defenders of President Jonathan, Niger Delta militants are threatening to take on Boko Haram

  • Vol 52 No 14
  •  8th July 2011

The usual suspects

Jonathan’s new cabinet repays old favours and special interests with no concessions to a restive north

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