Vol 63 No 24 | NIGERIA HYPREP twists UNEP's arm 1st December 2022 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...
Vol 54 No 9 | NIGERIAUNITED STATES Law suits unravel 26th April 2013 The United States Supreme Court decided on 17 April to back a lower court’s refusal to hear a suit brought by Nigerians against Royal Dutch Shell ...
Vol 42 No 13 | SIERRA LEONE Minimal contracts 29th June 2001 Ukrainian businessman Leonid Minin, named by Africa Confidential and the United Nations sanctions committee as a leading arms supplier to the Revolutionary United Front, was rearrested by Italian...
Vol 53 No 17 | SIERRA LEONE The case against Sam-Sumana 24th August 2012 Claims of illegal foreign political donations could force president Ernest Koroma to drop his running mate in November's elections United States businessmen are accusing Vice-President Samuel Sam-Sumana of diverting commercial investments worth hundreds of thousands of dollars into campaign funds for the All People’s Congress (APC) in the 2007 elections....
Vol 52 No 3 | NIGERIA Bayelsa's fighting chance 4th February 2011 Rivalry between two former loyalists of President Goodluck Jonathan and his People's Democratic Party in his home state of Bayelsa presages fierce confrontations before April's elections. The split in the Bayelsa...