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/ 16 November 2008
Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda agreed on Sunday to take part in UN-backed peace talks, but fighting between the army and rebels raged on.
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/ 27 October 2008
Many believe that had Mbeki’s fall occurred when Olusegun Obasanjo was still in power, Abuja’s attitude towards Pretoria would have soured.
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/ 12 October 2008
The question should not be whether Zuma is good for Nigeria, but rather, whether a president Zuma can afford to call the bluff of the Nigerian govt.
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/ 11 September 2008
Nigerian investigators have found evidence that oil exploration licences that should have brought in $120m in revenue, were illegally awarded in 2006.
Nigerians can teach us a thing or two about power cuts. C Don Adinuba explains why it’s always midnight in Lagos.
Resolving the thorny question of Robert Mugabe’s fate may hold the key to breaking the impasse over Zimbabwe’s disputed presidential vote. Mugabe has not himself suggested he would be willing to step aside if he were granted immunity for alleged human rights abuses and allowed to fade into comfortable retirement.
Africa will be well-placed to weather a global economic downturn if it uses high oil and commodities prices to diversify its economies, one of the continent’s most successful businessmen said in an interview. Nigerian tycoon Aliko Dangote said the world’s poorest continent could benefit while developed nations suffered an economic slowdown.
A new refinery in South Africa is likely to be the only one to go ahead in the short-term from a slew of projects proposed in sub-Saharan Africa, analysts say. Dozens of developments have been announced in recent years in countries including Angola, Nigeria and Zimbabwe but most will stay on the drawing board.
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/ 15 January 2008
Nigeria will not pour more cash into power, having spent -billion in the last seven years with little to show for it, until it has a clear idea of how to revamp the sector, President Umaru Yar’Adua said on Monday. Yar’Adua took power on May 29 with a pledge to declare a ”national emergency” on power and energy, but he has yet to formally take the step.
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/ 21 November 2007
Umaru Yar’Adua looks serene in the official portrait hanging in a courtroom where lawyers in black robes are trying to unseat him as president of Nigeria. But his position may be less secure than the photograph. The presidential tribunal is a special electoral court empowered to hear petitions against his victory in April by losing candidates.
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/ 8 November 2007
Nigeria’s President Umaru Yar’Adua has ratified revocation of Abuja plots allocated to him and other top citizens by former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration, newspapers said here on Thursday. The country’s highest ruling body cited ”overriding public interests” for the revocation of the choice plots in the federal capital city.