Vol 63 No 3 | NIGERIA Bankers circle the presidency 3rd February 2022 The country’s military is over-stretched and few trust the political class but its financiers are projecting power like never before As the race for next year's presidential elections heats up, two political outsiders have been named as contenders with support by some in the top ranks of President...
Vol 44 No 9 | NIGERIA Landslide in the Delta 2nd May 2003 The presidential and gubernatorial elections in the oil-rich Niger Delta set new standards of improbability. Just over twelve hours after voting ended in some parts of Rivers, the...
Vol 58 No 16 | NIGERIA Letting a crisis go to waste 4th August 2017 President Buhari's supporters insist he's about to take back the reins of office and all bets are off for the 2019 election Politicians from Chicago to China insist that lurking behind every crisis is an opportunity. Nigeria has been putting that adage to the test, first with the crashing oil...
Vol 62 No 17 | NIGERIA Energy law unsettles rentiers 26th August 2021 Reforms speed up shift from oil to gas and trigger a new race for influence over contracts and regulation Even before the ink was dry, officials and their sponsors had already begun to lobby for top jobs in the new oil sector management structures created by the...
Vol 64 No 5 | NIGERIA A high turnout will shake up national politics 24th February 2023 Peter Obi easily wins the opinion polls but the elections on the ground are still wide open If many of the local and international opinion polls on Nigeria's presidential elections on 25 February prove accurate, then Peter Obi, the multi-millionaire banker standing on the Labour...