Vol 51 No 5 | NIGERIA On her Majesty's Secret Service 5th March 2010 Wits in Abuja have taken to referring to First Lady Turai Yar’Adua as ‘Her Majesty’ and her coterie of apparatchiks as the ‘Secret Service’. She organised the clandestine...
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 53 No 3 | NIGERIA The shape of the deadly sect 3rd February 2012 Boko Haram has a supreme leader and a consultative body, the Shura. The leader, Abubakar Shekau, was second-in-command until Mohammed Yusuf was killed in police custody in July...
Vol 59 No 1 | NIGERIA All about votes and the naira 12th January 2018 The government will struggle to kick-start the economy and deal with security threats as electioneering begins Politics and everyday life in Nigeria in 2018 will be dominated by concerns about security, corruption and the still sluggish economy. All three core issues will weigh heavily...
Vol 65 No 2 | NIGERIA Abductions prompt security alert 18th January 2024 The reported deaths of Nabeeha Al-Kadriyar, who was kidnapped along with 22 others in the Bwari Area of Abuja, and 13-year-old Folasade Ariyo, who was abducted alongside eleven...