Vol 51 No 1 | NIGERIA The elite scrambles for cover 8th January 2010 Desperate to stop the crisis over President Yar’Adua’s illness from spinning out of control, senior politicians plot compromise deals Politicians in Abuja currently have two main imperatives: to forestall a military coup and to prevent war restarting in the Niger Delta (AC Vol 50 No 25). They...
Vol 45 No 18 | NIGERIA Guns, gangs and oil 10th September 2004 Troops are moving into Port Harcourt, the oil capital, to suppress the gangster rebels Last week, a dozen customers at a restaurant at 10 Warri Street, Port Harcourt, were machine-gunned to death at their tables by a gang of youths, who then...
Vol 66 No 1 | NIGERIA President Tinubu’s oil optimism doesn’t add up, yet 3rd January 2025 Local companies taking over onshore production and international offshore plays won’t plug the revenue holes Widespread scepticism greeted President Bola Tinubu’s ‘Budget of Restoration’ when he presented it to the National Assembly on 18 December – mainly due to doubts about the oil...
Vol 55 No 4 | NIGERIA Data battles in Abuja 21st February 2014 Nigeria's most sensational political row for a decade began with a dispute over arithmetic. The figure in question was US$49.8 billion: that was the oil sales revenue between...
Vol 48 No 10 | NIGERIA Giant steps 11th May 2007 Mallam Nasir el-Rufai's student friends called him 'Giant'; he stands some five foot seven inches tall. These days he is more commonly known as 'Bulldozer', because of his...