Vol 52 No 20 | NIGERIAGULF OF GUINEAPIRACY The Security Council lands a new African problem 7th October 2011 Nigeria calls a debate on worsening piracy in the Gulf of Guinea The United Nations Security Council does not lack for African problems: the continent’s woes take up about three quarters of the Council’s time. Later this month, a new...
Vol 53 No 1 | NIGERIA A year of living dangerously 6th January 2012 Northern and Delta insurgents, oil companies and angry citizens threaten President Jonathan’s reform plans For a year that was meant to presage Nigeria’s great economic leap forward, 2012 could hardly have opened more inauspiciously. First came President Goodluck Jonathan’s declaration of a...
Vol 63 No 20 | NIGERIA An election umpire besieged on all sides 6th October 2022 A younger, better-informed and more demanding electorate is challenging the state and mainstream politicians to run fairer elections Every week or so a new scandal about a plan to steal the national elections next year hits the headlines and social media. One of the latest claims... READ FOR FREE
Vol 47 No 19 | NIGERIA Ambitions in the north 22nd September 2006 The President has not said who he wants to succeed him but he knows who he wants to stop The northern Nigerian elite is in the unfamiliar position of trying to side-step the manoeuvrings of a southern President determined to block the political ambitions of at least...
Vol 60 No 10 | NIGERIA OPL245: Fight or flight 17th May 2019 A new claim for damages by the Federal Republic of Nigeria, linked to a historic scandal over the controversial award of the OPL 245 oil licence, is set...