Nigeria

Nigeria

Population: 165 mn.
GDP: 273 bn.
Debt: 7.9 bn.
Overview: Growth will falter as security worries increase in the north and Middle Belt. Criticism will grow of President Goodluck Jonathan and Oil Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke's management of the oil industry. The military will be tested hard at home against Boko Haram and in Mali. Northern politicians will organise against Jonathan's government

 

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  • Vol 53 No 7
  •  30th March 2012

The President tightens up

Jonathan is getting a grip on his party and perhaps preparing to run again, despite his northern rivals

  • Vol 53 No 7
  •  30th March 2012

The people who run the PDP show

• Chief Mike Oghiadomhe, Chief of Staff to the President: as Edo State Deputy Governor, he made friends with his opposite number in Bayelsa, Goodluck Jonathan. He is powerful and ruthless in Jonathan’s kitchen cabinet and the President runs the People’s D...

  • Vol 53 No 7
  •  30th March 2012

Ibori goes to Southwark

Having pleaded guilty to ten money-laundering charges and obtaining a money transfer by deception and fraud, James Onanefe Ibori, the former Governor of Delta State, will be sentenced on 16 and 17 April at London’s Southwark Crown Court (AC Vol 52 No 16...

  • Vol 53 No 6
  •  16th March 2012

Oil cuts as Delta erupts

Piracy and militant attacks are cutting oil production in the Niger Delta as the government struggles with northern insurgents

  • Vol 53 No 6
  •  16th March 2012

Abacha’s ghost and Boko Haram

Security agents trying to disentangle the roots and widening network of the Boko Haram militia have identified links with a group of senior military and police officers who held power in General Sani Abacha’s junta.

  • Vol 53 No 3
  •  3rd February 2012

How terror came to Kano

Boko Haram’s latest massacre raised more questions about the government’s security policy and the responsibility of northern leaders

  • Vol 53 No 3
  •  3rd February 2012

The shape of the deadly sect

Boko Haram has a supreme leader and a consultative body, the Shura. The leader, Abubakar Shekau, was second-in-command until Mohammed Yusuf was killed in police custody in July 2009. It is not clear how much control Shekau can maintain. Even if he were op...

  • Vol 53 No 2
  •  20th January 2012

How the fuel row caught fire

An unwieldy and spontaneous opposition has won its first battle against the government; now it needs a strategy

  • Vol 53 No 2
  •  20th January 2012

Sanusi hits out at subsidy racket

Almost alone among his colleagues in government, Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Sanusi Lamido Aminu Sanusi has made a credible case for the removal of fuel subsidies*. He argues for direct measures – such as cash transfers – to help working people but i...

  • Vol 53 No 1
  •  6th January 2012

A year of living dangerously

Northern and Delta insurgents, oil companies and angry citizens threaten President Jonathan’s reform plans

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