Vol 4 (AAC) No 5 | CAMEROONNIGERIACHINA Good neighbours 31st March 2011 Addax, a British-listed oil and gas company controlled by China’s Sinopec, may benefit from this month’s decision by the Nigerian and Cameroonian governments to collaborate in the Bakassi...
Vol 66 No 21 | NIGERIA The Tinubu-Shell trade-off behind a $7.5 billion investment 24th October 2025 UN experts warn that international oil companies’ opaque sales to local consortia flout environmental and human rights laws The tortuous bargaining between international oil companies – Shell, TotalEnergies and ExxonMobil – and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government over new investments has hit a succession of legal...
Vol 58 No 10 | NIGERIA Bitter pills for the politicians 12th May 2017 The lack of reliable information about Buhari's health has prompted ambitious politicians to seek to replace him in 2019, or before If the management of news about President Muhammadu Buhari's illness had been deliberately designed to sow fear and despondency in the nation, its authors could hardly have done... READ FOR FREE
Vol 52 No 13 | NIGERIA Boko Haram declares war 24th June 2011 Building on growing northern resentments, the Islamist sect wants to create a political and security crisis by bombing the police Few seem convinced by President Goodluck Jonathan’s assurances that the security situation is under control following the bombing on 16 June of Louis Edet House, the national police...
Vol 42 No 22 | NIGERIA Unknown soldiers 9th November 2001 A massacre of more than 200 Tiv causes ructions in the military and the federation When Nigerian soldiers slaughtered more than 200 civilians in Benue State, they called into question the moral basis of President Olusegun Obasanjo's government. The Obasanjo regime, in contrast...