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 43 No 4 | NIGERIA Crossed lines 22nd February 2002 Africa's biggest privatisation so far, the US$1.3 billion deal for control of Nitel, Nigeria's state telecoms company, is unravelling. A consortium of Nigerian businesses, banks, s...
Vol 51 No 7 | NIGERIA Jonathan and the securocrats 2nd April 2010 With a new cabinet in place, the acting President wants to push through some economic and political reforms The next stage of the political plan mapped out by Acting President Goodluck Jonathan and his advisors is taking shape, following the Senate's confirmation of the list of 38 minist...
Vol 64 No 10 | NIGERIA Minister sacks oil clean-up boss as graft fears grow 9th May 2023 The removal of the head of HYPREP is the latest effort to clear resistance to wholesale plunder of the $1 billion Delta anti-pollution programme The head of the government agency charged with cleaning up decades of oil pollution by Shell in Ogoniland, Ferdinand Giadom, was summarily sacked without cause by President Muhamma... READ FOR FREE
Vol 1 (AAC) No 6 | NIGERIA Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala 7th November 2008 Managing Director, World Bank Born in 1954, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala studied economics at Harvard University, then earned a Ph.D in regional economics and development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...