DISPATCHES Vol 63 No 17 | UNITED NATIONSAFRICAN UNIONCLIMATE CHANGE Fight over Africa’s fossil fuels intensifies 9th August 2022 Climate negotiators push back against AU plan for common position on gas and nuclear energy playing a ‘critical role’ in short to medium term The African Union’s plan to ramp up oil and gas production launched at a preparatory meeting with national negotiating teams has triggered a row with climate experts and green ener... READ FOR FREE
Vol 3 (AAC) No 9 | NIGERIACHINAINDIA Beijing gazumps New Delhi 20th July 2010 China's state companies advance billion-dollar oil and banking deals while India's plans are now on hold The Lagos State government, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and the China State Construction Engineering Corporation signed an US$8 billion deal this month for a 300,...
Vol 57 No 21 | NIGERIA Buhari's kitchen cabinet 21st October 2016 President Muhammadu Buhari stirred a predictable hornets' nest when he dismissed, in a most patriarchal manner, criticisms his wife had made of his presidency. On 14 October Aisha ...
Vol 45 No 15 | NIGERIA Delta damages 21st July 2004 By helicopter and canoe, people flee the violence; oil companies count the cost Death and destruction in the Niger Delta is driving ChevronTexaco and its insurers into a legal battle. After attacks on its oil wells and pipelines in April 2003, the company clai...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 1 | NIGERIACHINA The honeymoon is over 27th November 2008 The once thriving Abuja-Beijing relationship has hit problems The catastrophic failure in November of Nigeria’s US$340 million, Chinese-built satellite NIGCOMSAT-1, launched only a year ago, is the latest, most visible indication of increas...