Vol 51 No 2 | NIGERIA The nearly man 22nd January 2010 After President Yar’Adua’s two-month health crisis in Saudi Arabia, Vice-President Jonathan’s supporters urge him to seize the day On 16 January, the Vice-President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, began to sound like a Nigerian President. His many supporters across the country say it's not before time: they are...
Vol 51 No 16 | NIGERIA Abuja takes Halliburton to court 6th August 2010 President Goodluck Jonathan's government is taking on the United States' oil services giant Halliburton and its Nigerian associates for organising bribes to secure contracts for the $6 billion...
Vol 51 No 7 | NIGERIA Jonathan and the securocrats 2nd April 2010 With a new cabinet in place, the acting President wants to push through some economic and political reforms The next stage of the political plan mapped out by Acting President Goodluck Jonathan and his advisors is taking shape, following the Senate's confirmation of the list of...
Vol 45 No 5 | NIGERIA Anenih's irresistible rise 5th March 2004 A mysterious murder affects the ruling PDP and probably the next poll It is hotly disputed whether Aminasoari Kalu Dikibo, a chieftain of the governing People's Democratic Party in the oil-rich Niger Delta, died in a political assassination or an...
Vol 53 No 2 | NIGERIA How the fuel row caught fire 20th January 2012 An unwieldy and spontaneous opposition has won its first battle against the government; now it needs a strategy Nobody in government, least of all President Goodluck Jonathan, seemed prepared for the torrent of opposition excited by the decision to end fuel subsidies. This doubled the retail...