IN THE ANALYSIS

Chart of the week: A new source of tension
Last year, the People's Gazette newspaper reported lopsided recruitment into Nigeria's secret police, the DSS. Like an earlier recruitment scandal in 2017, the recruitment patterns heavily favoured Nigeria's North-East and North-West geopolitical zones, potentially tipping the balance of the country's security architecture in favour of those regions for decades to come ...
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Scorecard – assessing our 2019 predictions
2019, like any other, has been an eventful year in ...
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What does Boris Johnson’s Britain mean for Nigeria?
Anti-immigrant sentiment is seldom fully rational, and one cannot understand ...
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The week ahead – Powering down
State Security Service officials forcefully rearrested journalist, activist and former ...
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The week ahead – Sound the alarm
The World Bank has said that Nigeria may become home ...
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Video: Who does the Social Media Bill affect?
The Executive arm of Nigeria’s government has for a while ...
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The week ahead – Give unto Caesar
Investment inflows into Nigeria declined by $460 million from $5.82 ...
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Now that the Q3 2019 GDP results have been released ...
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The week ahead – Maybe it is rocket science
On 15 November, the Supreme Court said all allegations raised ...
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The week ahead – Who runs this show?
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the extension of Nigeria’s border ...
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US President, Donald Trump has announced that Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader ...
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The week ahead – Spot the mismatch
The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal filed by the ...
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Video: Rice, and Nigeria’s border
From independence till the mid-1970s, Nigeria's domestic rice production was ...
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The week ahead – Facing a reset
Over the weekend, the police in Kaduna State confirmed the ...
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The week ahead – The long walk
The FG and unions have finally agreed on the percentage ...
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Stalemate: Boko Haram’s new strategy means fewer attacks
At its peak in 2014, the Boko Haram insurgency saw ...
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The week ahead – Widen the net
New data from the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) ...
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The week ahead – Working at cross purposes
The Central Bank of Nigeria has announced additional charges on ...
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How do the Saudi attacks affect Nigeria?
A swarm of drones set off a chain of explosions ...
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The week ahead – Tightening screws
Nigeria’s economy saw a decline of $3.2 billion in investment ...
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The week ahead – Ubuntu no more
The United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings condemned rising ...
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