Nigeria

Nigeria

Population: 144.7 million
GNI: $92400 million
Debt: $20300 million
Overview: Courtroom battles over last year's elections may trigger a major political upset as oil and gas revenues rise further. Banks and telecoms companies are preparing big new investments.

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  • Vol 48 No 18
  • 07/09/2007

Gas project haunts politicians

New developments in the investigations into Nigeria's $US10 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project on Bonny Island could have serious political ramifications in Washington and Abuja. Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is soon to launch a...

  • Vol 48 No 16
  • 03/08/2007

Making haste slowly

President Yar'Adua shows he is prepared to make sweeping changes – even if the pace of decision-making remains slow

  • Vol 48 No 12
  • 08/06/2007

The new man in Abuja

Vested interests in the police and political class are already trying to block President Umaru Yar'Adua's reform efforts

  • Vol 48 No 12
  • 08/06/2007

CHAMPAGNE IN THE DELTA

At Government House in Port Harcourt last week, waiters scurried around pouring bottles of Cristal champagne as a white jacketed crooner sang Frank Sinatra's 'My way' in honour of outgoing Rivers State Governor Peter Odili. That was not the send-off p...

  • Vol 48 No 12
  • 08/06/2007

RUSSIAN ROULETTE

The shooting dead of a Nigerian driver and kidnapping of six Russians from their compound in Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom, looks like an escalation in a complex feud over the aluminium plant where they worked for Russian Aluminium.

  • Vol 48 No 10
  • 11/05/2007

A troubled transition

The incoming government faces political road blocks as it tries to tackle the crises in electric power supply and the Niger Delta

  • Vol 48 No 10
  • 11/05/2007

Giant steps

Mallam Nasir el-Rufai's student friends called him 'Giant'; he stands some five foot seven inches tall. These days he is more commonly known as 'Bulldozer', because of his reputation for demolishing illegal buildings since he was named Minister for the...

  • Vol 48 No 9
  • 27/04/2007

The dealmaking begins

The victorious People's Democratic Party wants to co-opt enough dissenters to put the rigged election furore behind it

  • Vol 48 No 9
  • 27/04/2007

The men from the south

Bayelsa State's head of security, Bola Igali, barked orders into his mobile phone. 'We have a security situation developing,' he told Africa Confidential, breaking off the interview. Shooting in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, had just broken out ...

  • Vol 48 No 9
  • 27/04/2007

Uneasy truce in Delta State

Emmanuel Uduaghan, the winner of the heavily disputed governorship elections in Delta State, will have a critical economic and political role in the coming months. He is the protégé of outgoing Delta Governor James Ibori, who has been und...

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