Vol 64 No 21 | NIGERIA Chasing the greenback 19th October 2023 Both government and citizens seek US dollars but the greenbacks are getting scarcer and the naira keeps depreciating. The government wants portfolio investors to return to Nigeria and...
Vol 37 No 18 | NIGERIA Go East, young man 6th September 1996 General Abacha's new enthusiasm for things eastern is beginning to pay commercial and diplomatic dividends Increasingly, it seems that General Sani Abacha is drawing his political and business inspiration from the East. By bringing Malaysian, South Korean and Chinese companies into the country,...
Vol 62 No 16 | NIGERIA Election bill deepens rivalries 5th August 2021 Trumpeting their commitment to a democratic ethos, the two main parties argue over how to rewrite the electoral rules For years the National Assembly in Abuja is lambasted as hosting among the best paid but least productive legislators. Then within the same month they steer through two...
Vol 39 No 25 | NIGERIA As bad as it gets 18th December 1998 Political power in Nigeria grows out of a barrel of oil but the industry is in big trouble If General Abdulsalami Abubakar’s government cannot sort out the oil business, its brokering of a political transition may not amount to much. Six months ago,when Gen. Sani Abacha...
Vol 41 No 19 | NIGERIAUNITED KINGDOM Kanu help? 29th September 2000 Nwankwo Kanu of Nigeria, the current African Player of the Year who now plys his trade in Britain after spells in Holland and Italy, is telling British newspapers...