Nigeria

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Nigeria
Population:	145mn.
GNI, $ :	137.1bn.
Debt:	8bn.
Overview:	So far, China’s biggest deal offers – $50 bn. for investment in oil and an $8.3 bn. rail investment – have not been taken up by the Nigerian government, as politics outweighs economic imperatives.

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Found 26 articles.

Vol 4 No 6
April 2011

Odein Ajumogobia

Foreign Affairs Minister, Nigeria

Vol 4 No 5
March 2011

Addax, a British-listed oil and gas company controlled by China’s Sinopec, may benefit from this month’s decision by the Nigerian and Cameroonian governments to collaborate in the Bakassi Peninsula after resolving their long-standing dispute over the area...

Vol 4 No 4
February 2011

Can’t pay, won’t pay

Friendly rhetoric and big promises between Beijing and Abuja do not deliver as payment problems strain ties

Vol 4 No 4
February 2011

Who can you call?

Another attempt at privatising fixed-line operator Nigerian Telecommunications Ltd. (Nitel) and mobile operator Mtel has failed.

Vol 3 No 12
October 2010

Spooks, not railways

Abuja wants to use Chinese export finance to build a spy network with the controversial ZTE company – instead of a railway

Vol 3 No 12
October 2010

India follows China’s lead

Wherever China goes in Nigeria, India tends not to be too far behind. Chinese contractors may have landed all of the major railway deals in Nigeria (AAC Vol 3 No 4), but Indian manufacturers are supplying some of the rolling stock.

Vol 3 No 9
July 2010

Beijing gazumps New Delhi

China's state companies advance billion-dollar oil and banking deals while India's plans are now on hold

Vol 3 No 9
July 2010

Telecom troubles

Plans to sell the state-owned Nigeria Telecommunications (Nitel) have floundered after China Unicom announced it would not be contributing to the front-running New Generation Consortium comprised of China Unicom Europe, the United Arab Emirate's Minerv...

Vol 3 No 7
May 2010

Oiling the gears

Beijing’s biggest African offer yet is a risky gambit to gain a major stake in the upstream and downstream sectors of Nigeria’s oil business

Vol 3 No 4
February 2010

Beijing's builders are back

The on-again off-again plan to renovate the railway linking coastal Lagos to Kano in the north may formally start up this year, but questions about the validity of any contract signed between the Chinese companies and the Nigerian government remain unt...

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