Vol 55 No 15 | NIGERIA The Jonathan surge 25th July 2014 Despite a security crisis and a poor public image, President Goodluck Jonathan's People's Democratic Party has engineered a startling political recovery. Much of the turnaround is the responsibility...
Vol 44 No 9 | NIGERIA Landslide in the Delta 2nd May 2003 The presidential and gubernatorial elections in the oil-rich Niger Delta set new standards of improbability. Just over twelve hours after voting ended in some parts of Rivers, the...
Vol 44 No 9 | NIGERIA The naira republic wins again 2nd May 2003 Money-politics and vote-rigging will undermine President Obasanjo's second term without a full investigation of the poll 'Don't give me any more of those Florida results!' bellowed a Nigerian journalist at a computer screen in the Election Commission's media centre. The machine was spewing out...
Vol 51 No 5 | NIGERIA On her Majesty's Secret Service 5th March 2010 Wits in Abuja have taken to referring to First Lady Turai Yar’Adua as ‘Her Majesty’ and her coterie of apparatchiks as the ‘Secret Service’. She organised the clandestine...
Vol 64 No 12 | NIGERIA Tinubu tries shock therapy on sluggish economy 8th June 2023 Ending subsidies, selling oil assets and devaluing the naira are on the agenda as the new government goes for growth Proclaiming the end of fuel subsidies at his inauguration on 29 May and his intention to merge the multiple exchange rates for the beleaguered naira, President Bola Tinubu... READ FOR FREE