Vol 59 No 15 | NIGERIA The probity contest 27th July 2018 To convince voters of his hard line on corruption, President Buhari’s prosecutors will have to win some cases at last With primaries for the 2019 election fast approaching, President Muhammadu Buhari is under pressure to push ahead with his anti-graft campaign. The Fulani herder-farmer killings and splits in...
Vol 43 No 9 | NIGERIA Khaki blues, business suits 3rd May 2002 Civilian rule, even by a retired general, does not suit the army The army is back at the centre of politics, three years after it handed over to an elected government whose head, President Olusegun Obasanjo, is himself a recycled...
Vol 47 No 20 | NIGERIA No consensus on the census 6th October 2006 No Nigerian official has been able to explain convincingly the reasons for the delays in publishing the results of the national census held in March. That is no...
Vol 57 No 17 | NIGERIA A dollar emergency 26th August 2016 Just as investment companies began advising clients to return to the Nigerian market to take advantage of the sharp depreciation of the naira currency over the past two...
Vol 59 No 25 | NIGERIA Election bored game 21st December 2018 Two familiar veteran candidates are failing to strike a chord with the voters ahead of a critical presidential race next February As political leaders loudly debate the ethics of signing up to a code of conduct and President Muhammadu Buhari throws back, for the fourth time, an electoral reform...