May 2017

30 May 2017
Al Jazeera
50 years on: Nigeria’s Biafra secessionist movement
On Biafra Remembrance Day we ask pro-secessionist leader Nnamdi Kanu if the call for secession is growing louder…

Premium Times
Two years on, Northern supporters await Buhari’s magic
He never called himself a revolutionist – he was a former military dictator who imposed draconian laws – but President Muhammadu Buhari’s electoral campaign in 2014 and 2015 can be described as revolutionary…

29 May 2017
The Cable
Revival of rail sector, low priority to education — 16 highs and lows of Buhari’s govt
The administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is marking its second year in power. An administration that was dubbed a “messianic” one considering that its emergence saw an end to the 16 uninterrupted years the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had governed Nigeria…

Guardian Nigeria
Osinbajo, critics disagree over Buhari’s mid-term scorecard
In spite of the groundswell of criticism of its performance in the past two years, especially in its handling of the economy, the Nigerian government has insisted that it was on course in its mission to change the fortune of Africa’s most populous country…

28 May 2017
Guardian Nigeria
Frustration and hope: Biafra 50 years on
Nigeria on Tuesday marks 50 years since the declaration of an independent Republic of Biafra plunged the country into a civil war, amid renewed tensions and fresh calls for a separate state…

25 May 2017
Punch
Buhari’s performance in two years too poor– Report
As the first two years of the President Muhammadu Buhari-administration winds down this month, only four per cent of the 171 promises made to Nigerians in the build-up to the 2015 elections have been fulfilled, a new report by SBM Intelligence has revealed…

23 May 2017
Quartz
Nigeria has now been in recession for five quarters—but there may be light at the end of the tunnel
Nigeria’s economic worries are not yet over. Statistically, at least. With negative growth recorded for the fifth consecutive quarter,Nigeria’s economy remains mired in recession, according to newly published data by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)…

Vanguard
Nigerian economy shrinks by 0.5%: data
Nigeria’s economy contracted for a fifth straight quarter, official figures showed Tuesday, as low oil production dented overall output…

19 May 2017
Bloomberg
Union dispute with Exxon threatens Nigeria’s oil output
Nigeria’s manager-level oil union will continue a strike indefinitely at Exxon Mobil Corp.’s local unit, threatening output after talks with the company to end the action reached an impasse, a labor official said…

9 May 2017
The Africa Report
Proxy warfare
Allies of Iran and Saudi Arabia are fighting it out in Nigeria, with the government repressing the Shia organisation, Islamic Movement in Nigeria, in a move reminiscent of the conflict that radicalised the Boko Haram Islamist militancy…