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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 5
  •  5th March 2010

On her Majesty's Secret Service

Wits in Abuja have taken to referring to First Lady Turai Yar’Adua as ‘Her Majesty’ and her coterie of apparatchiks as the ‘Secret Service’. She organised the clandestine return to Nigeria of her husband, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, on 23 February. Her...

  • Vol 51 No 4
  •  19th February 2010

Acting President Jonathan sets out his plans

From the surrealism of ‘missing president’ Umaru Yar’Adua, linked to the outside world via a ghostly voiced interview with the BBC, and with attendant disputes of legitimacy and sovereignty, Nigeria has solved the crisis in its own way, by effecting what ...

  • Vol 51 No 4
  •  19th February 2010

Goodluck with the money

Now a man in a hurry, Acting President Goodluck Jonathan has to stamp his authority on Abuja and quickly decide which ministers and officials can help him and which to drop. Within two days of assuming office, Jonathan swore in 17 permanent secretaries an...

  • Vol 51 No 2
  •  22nd January 2010

The nearly man

After President Yar’Adua’s two-month health crisis in Saudi Arabia, Vice-President Jonathan’s supporters urge him to seize the day

  • Vol 51 No 2
  •  22nd January 2010

The lucky friends

Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan is trying to build a broad consensus across political parties and ethnic regions, with advisors outside party and government circles who are mostly from Bayelsa. His close friends include retired General Owoye Andrew Azazi...

  • Vol 51 No 1
  •  8th January 2010

A khaki option on the table

Nigeria’s military, though much diminished, still sees itself as the last truly national institution and the final custodian of the state. If the current crisis unravels, senior officers are likely to intervene, possibly with a nominal civilian head. Offi...

  • Vol 50 No 25
  •  18th December 2009

Yar'Adua's cardiac crisis encourages Abuja plotters

The political class examines its options as the President stays away

  • Vol 50 No 25
  •  18th December 2009

Nigeria's succession: the candidates

Should President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's health problems cause him to withdraw from office, a number of People's Democratic Party (PDP) notables are poised to ascend.

  • Vol 50 No 24
  •  4th December 2009

Rogues and rackets on trial

A corruption case in Geneva snares some of Nigeria’s political elite, and judges order the return of stolen state assets

  • Vol 50 No 24
  •  4th December 2009

The Abacha family's plunder machine

General Sani Abacha is reckoned to have stolen over US$3 billion of Nigeria's public assets, of which at least $1 bn. and 900 million Deutsche Marks were deposited in Swiss banks.

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