Vol 64 No 7 | NIGERIA Tinubu faces legitimacy challenge 30th March 2023 With less half the voters on the lowest turnout since 1999 supporting him, the president-elect has a credibility problem Questions about the national and state elections are stubbornly taking centre-stage with daily demonstrations in the capital at which the ruling All Progressives' Congress (APC) is accused of...
Vol 50 No 10 | NIGERIA Welome back, Chief Tony 15th May 2009 The return of Anthony Anenih as Chairman of the Nigeria Ports Authority says more about the President's ethical standards than Anenih's technical skills Chief Anthony Anenih is Nigeria's ultimate political survivor. In March, 30 years after entering national politics, he was appointed Chairman of the Nigeria Port Authority, the government's second-biggest...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 4 | NIGERIACHINABRIEFING Beijing's builders are back 12th February 2010 The on-again off-again plan to renovate the railway linking coastal Lagos to Kano in the north may formally start up this year, but questions about the validity of any contract...
Vol 59 No 21 | NIGERIA The flight into Israel 26th October 2018 The leader of the supposed Igbo independence movement, Nwannekaenyi 'Nnamdi' Kenny Okwu Kanu, seems to have turned up in Israel after going on the run from a trial...
Vol 54 No 1 | NIGERIA Early start for Jonathan 10th January 2013 Despite corruption worries and a row with Obasanjo over the crisis in the north, President Jonathan prepares to stand in the 2015 elections Election billboards in the business district of Abuja calling for President Goodluck Jonathan to stand for election again in 2015 opened the political season of the New...