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Nigeria
Population: 227.71m
GDP: $199.72bn
Debt: 50.68% of GDP (2024)

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HYPREP twists UNEP's arm

Nigeria has enlisted its former Environment Minister to keep UNEP on board while doubts on remediation contractors increase

Nigerian officialdom is doing its best to prevent the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) severing its consultancy with the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) over chronic fraud and...

Spend, spend, spend

Government borrowing has been soaring, and loans from the central bank are many times over the statutory limit

Lower tax revenues due to plummeting recorded crude oil output, coupled with several expansionary budgets, mean that Nigerian government borrowing has been rocketing as the country heads for...

Grand corruption wrecks Niger delta clean-up

Theft from the billion-dollar oil clean-up in Ogoniland is so bad that the operation's chief architect, the UN Environment Programme, wants to quit

The UN Environment Programme is set for a bitter break with Nigeria over the clean-up of pipeline spills in the Niger delta despite almost 15 years of close...

An election umpire besieged on all sides

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...

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Opposition fall-out shakes up election plans

Both the ruling party and an outsider candidate may benefit from Atiku Abubakar's mis-steps

The flurry of secret meetings between senior Nigerian politicians in Paris and London this week points to trouble for presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar and his Peoples' Democratic Party...

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Osinbajo pushes green debt forgiveness plan

The Vice-President calls for a fourfold hike in green energy investment but warns economic pressures are boosting fossil fuel use

With Western countries accused of unfairness for compelling Africa to curtail fossil fuel use when they are only responsible for a tiny proportion of greenhouse gases, Nigerian Vice-President...

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Attacks shatter Abuja’s complacency

After breaking into a prison in the capital and killing elite security officers, Islamic State fighters claim they are now targeting President Buhari

As Islamist militants launch deadly assaults on the outskirts of Abuja and the country groans under a hydra-headed security crisis, enraged opposition senators have issued an ultimatum to...

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Pressure mounts on central bank as Naira tumbles again

The currency has fallen 20% on the parallel market since January driving inflation and challenging government strategy

At the heart of Nigeria's deepening foreign exchange woes is a paradox – that revenues from Africa's biggest oil and gas producer have been falling as energy prices...

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