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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 4
  •  18th February 2011

A fight for the President’s base

After a period of calm, political battles have resumed in Ogoniland as the ruling party tries to ensure its dominance ahead of the coming elections

  • Vol 52 No 3
  •  4th February 2011

Bayelsa's fighting chance

Rivalry between two former loyalists of President Goodluck Jonathan and his People's Democratic Party in his home state of Bayelsa presages fierce confrontations before April's elections. The split in the Bayelsa PDP began with the defection of Ndutimi...

  • Vol 52 No 2
  •  21st January 2011

Jonathan’s primary colours

Winning the PDP’s presidential nomination looks easier for Goodluck Jonathan than establishing himself as a truly national politician

  • Vol 52 No 1
  •  7th January 2011

Electric elections

The accidental President Goodluck Jonathan takes on the northern establishment, with unpredictable results

  • Vol 51 No 25
  •  17th December 2010

The war against the amnesty

The presidential election, the oil trade and community peace deals are at risk in the latest Niger Delta conflicts

  • Vol 51 No 25
  •  17th December 2010

General John Togo and all his enemies

The self-styled General of the Niger Delta struggle, warlord John Togo, emerged from the Itsekiri/Ijaw ethnic war of 2003, when rival tribal groups from Delta State spawned death, destruction and a new set of militias, militants and criminals.

  • Vol 51 No 24
  •  3rd December 2010

Atiku, Buhari and Ribadu - the great northern hopes

Northern politicians have regrouped and are making a determined bid for the presidency in next year's election

  • Vol 51 No 24
  •  3rd December 2010

All the President's militias

Jonathan must win the Delta vote and is mustering the violent gangs to ensure his victory

  • Vol 51 No 23
  •  19th November 2010

Jonathan’s Delta blues

Despite the President’s political base in the oil-rich Niger Delta, militant groups are on the march again and abandoning the amnesty deal

  • Vol 51 No 21
  •  22nd October 2010

The gangs of Port Harcourt

After the Abuja bombings, the political process turns back to the Niger Delta, where militants are frustrated by the aftermath of the amnesty deal

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