Vol 61 No 15 | NIGERIA The shake-up that didn’t happen 23rd July 2020 Plummeting prices prompted a radical plan to restructure the state oil company – then the vested interests fought back Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and several of the country’s most senior ministers recommended hard-hitting reforms to rein in the sprawling and notoriously unaccountable state oil company earlier this year...
Vol 44 No 19 | NIGERIA Saharan desserts 26th September 2003 President Olusegun Obasanjo's commitment to fighting oil sector corruption (AC Vol 44 No 18) is being severely tested on the one hand by a Federal Government probe of...
Vol 37 No 8 | NIGERIA Changing the guard 12th April 1996 General Sani Abacha's sacking of his Chief of Army Staff, Major General Alwali Kazir, and Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice-Marshall Femi John Femi, was a punishment, we...
Vol 38 No 14 | NIGERIA Going for broke 4th July 1997 Finance Minister Ani says the economy is booming but no one believes it any more First, look at the figures which General Sani Abacha prefers. Inflation was at 70 per cent in late 1995 and is now at 20 per cent. Foreign exchange...
Vol 56 No 11 | NIGERIA Delta, dollars and Downing Street 29th May 2015 Concerns about stability and commercial interests informed the sudden meeting between President Buhari and Britain’s Prime Minister Security, crime and migration topped the agenda when Nigerian President-elect Muhammadu Buhari met United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron at 10 Downing Street on 23 May. Aside from...