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Nigeria

Population: 144.7 million
GNI: $92400 million
Debt: $3,096 million
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Courtroom battles over last year's elections may trigger a major political upset as oil and gas revenues plummet. Banks and telecoms companies are shelving big new investments.

Intrigue surrounding the President's kidney ailment has increased political uncertainty.

 

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  • Vol 47 No 2
  • 20/01/2006

The Sino-Shango pact

China's US$2.27 billion foray into oil production for a 45 per cent stake in Nigeria's Block 130 is not the 'definitive agreement' that the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) claims. Aside from the hard operating conditions and technical ...

  • Vol 46 No 25
  • 16/12/2005

Political petroleum Inc.

Oil magnate Wale Tinubu, 37, and Oando PLC have made a big splash with the company's listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange last month. Oando's 3 billion Rand capitalisation is the biggest on the JSE since the state telecommunications company was priv...

  • Vol 46 No 25
  • 16/12/2005

Bye bye Bayelsa

The first stage of President Olusegun Obasanjo's operation 'Restore Hope' against Bayelsa State Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha is over with the impeaching of the beleaguered Governor by the State's House of Assembly on 9 December. Increasingly it loo...

  • Vol 46 No 24
  • 02/12/2005

Tummy tuck, bellyache

The dramatic farce in Bayelsa State is about money, not local patriotism

  • Vol 46 No 23
  • 18/11/2005

Ten years after

The Niger Delta still simmers a decade after the execution of its leading campaigner

  • Vol 46 No 23
  • 18/11/2005

Abacha's verdict

Ken Saro-Wiwa was a dangerous separatist 'who presented himself as an environmentalist and human rights activist before the international community', who was guilty of heinous crimes that demanded the ultimate sanction if stability in Nigeria's volati...

  • Vol 46 No 21
  • 21/10/2005

No truce yet

The battle between President Obasanjo and his deputy rages on and may sink the ruling party too

  • Vol 46 No 18
  • 09/09/2005

Power show

The epic battle between President Obasanjo and his deputy Abubakar is jolting the fragile political system

  • Vol 46 No 18
  • 09/09/2005

Players on parade

If the battle between President Olusegun Obasanjo and his deputy, Atiku Abubakar, is fired by the presidential race in 2007, what will happen if neither of them runs? There are plenty of aspiring candidates within and outside the ruling People's Democ...

  • Vol 46 No 17
  • 26/08/2005

Opening the gates

Will a public auction of oil blocks break the cycle of patronage and corruption?

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