Vol 57 No 23 | NIGERIA Political schisms hit recovery and reform 18th November 2016 Economic stagnation and rising prices are eroding the regional alliances at the heart of Buhari’s government Arguments over the response to the country's worst recession for 25 years are threatening to split the governing All Progressives' Congress. The APC is a fragile alliance between t... READ FOR FREE
Vol 57 No 21 | NIGERIA Buhari's kitchen cabinet 21st October 2016 President Muhammadu Buhari stirred a predictable hornets' nest when he dismissed, in a most patriarchal manner, criticisms his wife had made of his presidency. On 14 October Aisha ...
Vol 57 No 19 | NIGERIA No oil, no money, no deal 23rd September 2016 Both sides are edging towards some sort of deal that will get the money flowing again – to the Treasury and to the Delta There is an inexorable logic to the tortuous negotiations between the government and the Niger Delta Avengers, the most determined of the militant groups launching attacks in the o... READ FOR FREE
Vol 57 No 19 | NIGERIA Impatience 23rd September 2016 Patience Jonathan, wife of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has reacted with fury to Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) freezing more than US$14 million in ac...
Vol 57 No 17 | NIGERIA A dollar emergency 26th August 2016 Just as investment companies began advising clients to return to the Nigerian market to take advantage of the sharp depreciation of the naira currency over the past two months, rep...
Vol 57 No 16 | NIGERIA Juicier carrots, heavier sticks 5th August 2016 The deepening crisis in the Niger Delta is now the most serious threat to the government's plans for economic revival This month's announcement that the government is to resume payments to former militants in the Niger Delta is by any measure a victory for the myriad gangs and activists who have b... READ FOR FREE
Vol 57 No 14 | NIGERIA Chip off the oil block 8th July 2016 Just as the authorities dig into a series of suspicious transactions made by the late President Sani Abacha's Oil Minister, Chief Dauzia Loya 'Dan' Etete, his son Edward Keniwenimo...
Vol 57 No 13 | NIGERIA The Delta-naira yoyo 24th June 2016 Facing its deepest economic crisis for two decades, Nigeria has been bolstered by two modest pieces of good news this week. Firstly, officials in Abuja say they have secured a mont...
Vol 57 No 11 | NIGERIA Anniversary ambushed 27th May 2016 Victories against Boko Haram and crooked politicians are overshadowed by a faltering economy and new militants in the Delta It would be hard to concoct a worse conjunction of calamities than that facing President Muhammadu Buhari as he prepares to mark his first year as President on 29 May. Undaunted, h... READ FOR FREE
Vol 57 No 11 | NIGERIA Economic sands start to shift 27th May 2016 The government wants to fire up growth with an expansionary budget but has made U-turns on the currency and fuel prices Less than a after month President Muhammadu Buhari signed on 6 May a growth-boosting but much delayed budget for 2016, the government has made two important policy reversals on the...
