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...
President Yar'Adua shows he is prepared to make sweeping changes – even if the pace of decision-making remains slow
Vested interests in the police and political class are already
trying to block President Umaru Yar'Adua's reform efforts
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...
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.
The incoming government faces political road blocks as it
tries to tackle the crises in electric power supply and the Niger
Delta
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...
The victorious People's Democratic Party wants to co-opt enough
dissenters to put the rigged election furore behind it
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 ...
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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