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 49 No 3 | NIGERIA Oil and Abuja: A rockier relationship 1st February 2008 Relations between multinational oil companies and the government of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua are deteriorating. The big oil companies are talking of a chronic financing crisis...
Vol 39 No 13 | NIGERIA Revolving doors in Abuja 26th June 1998 Abuja’s hoteliers are among the most obvious beneficiaries of General SaniAbacha’ sdemiseon8June.Sincethen,theinlandcapital’ s hotels and guest houses have been f...
Vol 54 No 11 | NIGERIA Lagos leniency 24th May 2013 A Lagos court has sentenced Azim Aghajani, the Iranian convicted on 13 May of importing 13 containers of infantry weapons, to only five years, along with his Nigerian accomplice, U...
Vol 41 No 21 | NIGERIA Oduduwa's children 27th October 2000 Some of the fiercest opposition to President Obasanjo comes from his western region President Olusegun Obasanjo, a Yoruba, is a Nigerian first. His efforts to reestablish the nation after two decades of misrule are now at risk from violence involving its two bigge...