A long history of failure does not discourage Western leaders
who believe their intervention can improve conditions in the oil-rich
Niger Delta. Yet judging from recent history, the capacity of
outside intervention to make things even worse in the Delta looks
assured. After the United States' stalled efforts at training
Nigeria's military and Royal Dutch Shell's attempts at corporate
responsibility, Britain and France have offered military assistance
to tackle continuing violence in the Delta.
Offering military assistance to a country that did not request it is extremely bad manners, responded a seasoned Nigerian analyst after French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Britis...
Nigerian suspicion of foreign military support creates opportunities for the security professionals, some of whom are looking for business openings since an agreement between the U...
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's appointment of new service chiefs and a new Chief of Defence Staff on 20 August will further reduce the political power of former President Olusegun...
Justice and politics are uneasy bedfellows under the hesitant
President's new regime
Since President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua came to power after a widely-criticised election and started extolling the rule of law much has changed. Yar Adua's own electoral case will be h...
Vol 49 No 16 |
- CAMEROON
- NIGERIA
Cameroonian security forces in the disputed oil-rich Bakassi peninsula are on maximum alert after fatal attacks by the Niger Delta Defence and Security Council. The NDDSC, a little...
Vol 49 No 13 |
- CAMEROON
- NIGERIA
More gruesome killings raise doubts about the August handover of the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula
Troops from Nigeria and Cameroon were put on high alert in the Bakassi Peninsula, following the unexplained slaughter of five Cameroonian soldiers and a local government official o...
Nigeria is determined to raise its oil production capacity to four million barrels per day by 2010, President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua told Africa Confidential in Paris on 13 June. 'Tha...
Former Delta State Governor James Ibori faces charges of fraud and corruption in the Kaduna High Court and his wife Theresa faces money laundering charges in Britain, where she was...
Umaru Yar’Adua is short on leadership – just when Nigeria needs it
There was little fanfare for Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s first anniversary as Nigeria’s President on 29 May. His quiet leadership infuriates his opponents and bewilders those accustomed ...
Vol 49 No 11 |
- NIGERIA
- BRITAIN
British banks could face awkward questions after police in London charged Theresa Nkoyo Ibori, wife of former Delta State Governor James Ibori, with money laundering on 20 May. She...
