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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 51 No 21
  •  22nd October 2010

Ready for change in the Niger Delta

If the amnesty fails and the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta resumes its armed struggle, figures from the past and future of Delta militancy will take charge. Some turned to politics after the dictatorship of General Sani Abacha, who died...

  • Vol 51 No 20
  •  8th October 2010

The politics takes over again

Bold reform plans are put on hold as the battle for Aso Rock intensifies

  • Vol 51 No 20
  •  8th October 2010

The car bomb whodunit

Whoever was responsible for the car bombs that killed 12 people in Abuja during the 50th anniversary of Nigeria's Independence on 1 October and whatever their motives, they have succeeded in weakening President Goodluck Jonathan and sharply ratcheting up ...

  • Vol 51 No 19
  •  24th September 2010

A false start

Doubts about the election timetable, dissension in the President’s party and some surprise new candidates are changing everyone’s calculations

  • Vol 51 No 19
  •  24th September 2010

The field gets more crowded

There is no shortage of candidates or political parties contesting the presidential election due early next year; the exact timetable (AC Vol 51 No 18) is under review after the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Attahiru Je...

  • Vol 51 No 18
  •  10th September 2010

Good man, impossible job

Despite the time constraints, hopes for straight elections are vested in the Electoral Commission’s impressive Chairman Attahiru Jega

  • Vol 51 No 18
  •  10th September 2010

A tight election timetable

Key events in the coming months

  • Vol 51 No 16
  •  6th August 2010

Goodluck with the numbers

President Jonathan is slowly winning over the governors and party barons - but time is short

  • Vol 51 No 16
  •  6th August 2010

Political spills

A new burst of militancy is haunting the Niger Delta less than a year after the amnesty deal delivered an uneasy peace

  • Vol 51 No 16
  •  6th August 2010

Father Kukah, Professor Jega and the vote

In the Nigerian tradition of irrepressible optimism periodically suffused with brutal realism, Father Matthew Hassan Kukah argues that the last decade's attempts at democracy in Nigeria have been 'positive' and the country will hold together by 'sheer res...

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