31.01.12 Nigeria Focus January issue: Table of contents

SPOTLIGHT

• Climb-down on fuel deregulation leaves Jonathan looking weak: Labour unions back off
• Unprecedented street protests: Arrests made; Detainees released; More protests, peaceful and not; Human Rights Commission responds; The unions respond

OIL & GAS

• EFCC summons marketers: The list of subsidy beneficiaries increased sharply in 2008
• Table 1: Oil subsidy payments, 2011
• Petroleum marketers fight back: The marketers also insist that the federal government should probe Nezor SA and Tridax SA
• Report on NNPC leaked: The genesis of the report; Support for subsidies
• Table 2: PPPRA product pricing template
• Illicit bunkering back big time: NAOC is said to be losing about 25 per cent of the oil produced at wellheads
• Afren strikes oil in Okoro
• Jacka Resources closes on Aje
• MoU for biofuel plant: The project will produce ethanol, biomass electric power and food

NIGER DELTA

• Maritime security: Memorandum from the ministry; Another end run
• Joint task force disbanded: All the troops of the JTF have been moved to the new unit
• Southern states rally for Jonathan

POLITICS & SECURITY

• Supreme Court sacks PDP governors: Knock-on effects
• Boko Haram's siege of Kano: The attackers shot anyone who happened along their way; Beefing up security?
• Bumbling police strike again: The Borno State government has publicly denounced and dissociated itself
• ASUU strike continues
• Politics & society in brief: Sani Abacha aide appeals sentence; Shortage of HIV drugs

ECONOMY & FINANCE

• Unsure of SURE-P: The most important headache the SURE-P will have to contend with is the issue of its own legitimacy
• CBN reports on petroleum subsidy
• Loan funding for agriculture: Agricultural Transformation Agenda will empower Nigerian farmers.