Vol 52 No 18 | NIGERIAUNITED STATES Play the game 9th September 2011 The United States was engaged in the ‘rendition’ of prisoners from Nigeria to the USA even before the attacks of 11 September 2001, according to US State Department...
Vol 54 No 11 | NIGERIA An insurgency without the oil 24th May 2013 With Map: Recent Boko Haram activity: bombings, shootings, kidnappings, jailbreaks At face value, the declaration by President Goodluck Jonathan’s government, dominated by appointees from the oil-rich Niger Delta, of a state of emergency in north-east Nigeria and plans...
Vol 38 No 14 | NIGERIA The general's labyrinth 4th July 1997 Failures at home and abroad are bad news for General Abacha's plans to run in presidential elections All the ingredients are there: political uncertainty (about General Sani Abacha's candidacy in next year's elections), economic collapse (fuel shortages and worse poverty than 25 years ago), armed...
Vol 48 No 9 | NIGERIA Uneasy truce in Delta State 27th April 2007 Emmanuel Uduaghan, the winner of the heavily disputed governorship elections in Delta State, will have a critical economic and political role in the coming months. He is the...
Vol 58 No 10 | NIGERIA An avenger unmasked 12th May 2017 All the masked vigilantes in comic books have secret identities but few expected a member of the Niger Delta Avengers, one of the region's most effective militant groups,...