Vol 53 No 13 | NIGERIAUNITED STATES Fine gesture 22nd June 2012 The United States Securities and Exchange Commission is giving ‘appropriate consideration’ to a request that it share with the victims the financial penalties (‘disgorgement’) it levies on companies...
Vol 38 No 17 | NIGERIAAFRICA Fela and his heirs 29th August 1997 As millions mourn the passing of the Afrobeat King and his pioneering work, Africa's music industry is stronger than ever 'When I am President', intoned Fela Anikulapo Kuti at the height of his political campaigning, 'all Africa will dance to my music'. His political ambitions were unfulfilled but...
Vol 41 No 21 | NIGERIA Power and greed 27th October 2000 Privatisation is keenly favoured by the international community and - for quite different reasons - by Nigeria's own business people. President Olusegun Obasanjo's privatisation plans, although behind schedule,...
Vol 56 No 8 | NIGERIA INEC and high-tech 17th April 2015 The new technology helped combat fraud but old-fashioned politics determined the outcome The accolades heaped on Attahiru Jega and his team at the Independent National Electoral Commission for organising the country's most credible elections to date make much of the...
Vol 51 No 16 | NIGERIA Father Kukah, Professor Jega and the vote 6th August 2010 In the Nigerian tradition of irrepressible optimism periodically suffused with brutal realism, Father Matthew Hassan Kukah argues that the last decade's attempts at democracy in Nigeria have been...