Vol 60 No 20 | BENINNIGERIA Protectionism and patronage 11th October 2019 A bid by President Muhammadu Buhari to stop the smuggling of rice and petrol is turning into a cross-border political fight Ten months after its inauguration the new integrated frontier crossing between Nigeria and Benin at Sémé Kraké on the key Lagos-Cotonou corridor was closed to most trade on...
Vol 62 No 10 | NIGERIA The northern nexus 13th May 2021 As the security emergency spreads across the core northern states, insurgents and bandits are devastating an already weakened regional economy Until recently, governors in the northern states were chary of criticising President Muhammadu Buhari's government on security policy. That is changing as the crisis intensifies and elections loom.
Vol 47 No 11 | NIGERIA Business backers 26th May 2006 The business lobby Corporate Nigeria and mega-company Transcorp give substance to the view in Nigeria that all politics is business and all business is politics.
Vol 45 No 18 | NIGERIA Guns, gangs and oil 10th September 2004 Troops are moving into Port Harcourt, the oil capital, to suppress the gangster rebels Last week, a dozen customers at a restaurant at 10 Warri Street, Port Harcourt, were machine-gunned to death at their tables by a gang of youths, who then...
Vol 50 No 24 | NIGERIA Ailing president, procrastinating politics 4th December 2009 The latest illness of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua adds urgency to calls for far-reaching electoral and political reforms ahead of national elections due by early 2011. Despite mounting calls for Yar’Adua to step down on health grounds after he was spirited off to Saudi Arabia for treatment of acute pericarditis, his cabinet ministers insist he must remain in charge. Meanwhile, activists and opposition politicians are reorganising to challenge the incumbent People’s Democratic Party’s overwhelming grip on power. With national elections due by early 2011. The financial stakes are huge - control of some US$100 billion of annual oil and gas revenue. The last elections in...