Vol 55 No 24 | NIGERIA Danger looms as piracy booms 5th December 2014 Distracted by the Islamist insurgency in the north and the coming elections, the government has no effective response to the wave of oil theft and hijackings in the Gulf of Guinea Crashing world oil prices and next February's elections – in which President Goodluck Jonathan must retain his grip on his base in the oil-producing Niger Delta – could...
Vol 43 No 16 | NIGERIA Eastward Ho! 9th August 2002 Igbo politics are boiling with preparations for next year's general elections. Since the dream of an independent Biafra was crushed in 1970, many Igbo have felt marginalised, and...
Vol 42 No 15 | NIGERIA Politics dead or alive 27th July 2001 The ruling People's Democratic Party, with 209 of the 348 seats in the National Assembly and 59 of the 103 seats in the Senate, enters the electoral race...
Vol 50 No 8 | NIGERIAUNITED STATES The Halliburton trials 17th April 2009 Weeks after Information Minister Dora Akunyili announced a campaign to rehabilitate Nigeria’s international image, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s government faces the strongest test of its corruption-fighting credentials in...
Vol 58 No 20 | NIGERIAUNITED KINGDOM Game of mansions 22nd September 2017 The fondness of the Nigerian oil elite for palatial homes in London’s exclusive St. John's Wood emerges from our latest investigation Igho Sanomi, the Nigerian oil trader who became a billionaire from contracts obtained while Diezani Allison-Madueke was oil minister, bought a £28.5 million (US$39 mn.) British Virgin Island-registered...