Vol 40 No 17 | NIGERIA Clearly confusing 27th August 1999 Three months on, the economic policy of General Olusegun Obasanjo's government remains opaque. While the price of oil, which at US$20 a barrel is nearly twice that...
Vol 55 No 13 | NIGERIALIECHTENSTEIN The trade-off 27th June 2014 The Alpine principality is returning some of Sani Abacha’s loot after the Nigerian government drops charges against his son Mohammed In what bears the hallmarks of a backroom political deal, Liechtenstein is to return 167 million euros (US$228 mn.) stolen by General Sani Abacha in the 1990s. This...
Vol 49 No 9 | NIGERIA Unhealthy prospects 25th April 2008 If nothing else, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has proved wrong those critics who claimed he would be a mere puppet of his predecessor, Olusegun Obasanjo. Both men lead...
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 50 No 24 | NIGERIA Recycled activists, new tactics 4th December 2009 On 24 November, the Mega Summit Movement (MSM) disclosed plans to launch a Mega Party in 2010. Its three component groups had hitherto looked more like siblings squabbling...