Vol 46 No 15 | NIGERIA Notes on a scandal 22nd July 2005 Wojciech Chodan, an executive with Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR), has emerged as the Samuel Pepys of the Nigeria gas scandal. At many key meetings, Chodan...
Vol 51 No 2 | NIGERIA The lucky friends 22nd January 2010 Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan is trying to build a broad consensus across political parties and ethnic regions, with advisors outside party and government circles who are mostly from Bayelsa....
Vol 51 No 25 | NIGERIA General John Togo and all his enemies 17th December 2010 The self-styled General of the Niger Delta struggle, warlord John Togo, emerged from the Itsekiri/Ijaw ethnic war of 2003, when rival tribal groups from Delta State spawned death,...
Vol 51 No 18 | NIGERIA A tight election timetable 10th September 2010 Key events in the coming months Opposition parties, trades unions and civic activists are protesting against the breakneck schedule announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for presidential elections on 22 January 2010....
Vol 43 No 1 | NIGERIA Murdering sleep 11th January 2002 The murder of Attorney General and veteran politician Chief Bola Ige on 23 December raises new doubts about the prospect of free elections in 2003. He was murdered...