Vol 60 No 16 | NIGERIA Bunkering mentality 9th August 2019 In the piracy-riven Gulf of Guinea, there is doubt as to whether one particular vessel, the Indian-registered MT Apecus, was a victim of pirates or a pirate ship. Confusion has rei...
Vol 60 No 15 | NIGERIA The Gang of 43 breaks cover 26th July 2019 Light on technocrats, heavy on party hacks with accountability issues, many ask whether the new ministerial team was worth the four-month wait With an extra five members, stuffed with party loyalists and an average age of 60, President Muhammadu Buhari's new ministerial team cannot be accused of exuding dynamism or imagin... READ FOR FREE
Vol 60 No 14 | NIGERIA False starts for the clean-up 12th July 2019 Incompetence and corruption threaten the latest government body to be set up to tackle oil pollution The Ogoni area of the Niger Delta is one of the world's most severely contaminated stretches of land and water, and yet no relief is in sight. Eight years ago, after publishing a c... READ FOR FREE
Vol 60 No 14 | NIGERIA HYPREP’s checkered rep 12th July 2019 The environmental agency Abuja created has a bad record. It is even believed to be relaxing the clean-up benchmarks The Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) is only the latest iteration of Nigerian government agencies charged with using oil revenues to compensate for the effects of... READ FOR FREE
Vol 60 No 13 | NIGERIA The rise of Godwin Emefiele 28th June 2019 As the country awaits a new government, four months after elections, the Central Bank Governor has stamped his authority on economic policy The importance of Godwin Emefiele, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, to President Muhammadu Buhari's plans was clear as he set out his agenda for the next five years in Abuj...
Vol 60 No 12 | NIGERIA Oando chief takes on his foes 14th June 2019 The company's management is fighting the regulator's orders to quit amid threats of fresh investigations A reckoning is due in the battle for Oando, one of the country's biggest independent oil companies, after the market regulator barred its CEO and his deputy from holding directorsh...
Vol 60 No 11 | NIGERIA Troubles mount for Buhari 31st May 2019 There will be no radical changes in economic policy but a reshuffle of the security chiefs is probable and long overdue It may have been lack-lustre economy or the deepening national security crisis but President Muhammadu Buhari's swearing-in on 29 May was a morose affair. It was also short of star...
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 to further embarrass two hi...
Vol 60 No 8 | NIGERIA Atiku takes his beef to DC 19th April 2019 Atiku Abubakar is sticking by his claims of fraud in the Nigerian presidential election. He is spending $30,000 on Washington DC lobbyists Fein and DelValle to try to persuade Unit...
Vol 60 No 8 | NIGERNIGERIA Counter-terror error 19th April 2019 Four years after imposing a ban on economic activity along the shores of Lake Chad aimed at staunching the flow of funds to the Nigerian Islamist militia Boko Haram, the authoritie...
