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An exceptional state: Lagos & the 2015 elections By Paul Adams
“Lagos, for all its confusion, is full of emotional warmth, often shocking or misdirected, sometimes bleakly humorous, often too tragic for tears, but always full of raw intensity; above all it is a...
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The Africa Report, 05 February 2015
ARI director Edward Paice’s column for the Africa Report discusses Lagos as a model and case study for the use of property tax in Africa. The article spotlights ARI’s ‘How Property Tax Would Benefit...
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Whose Nigeria is it? By Paul Adams
ARI’s Paul Adams spent the week before the Nigerian presidential election in Lagos. Nigeria is working, proclaim the incumbent’s campaign posters. But for whom? You don’t expect courtesy in the...
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New Telegraph, 7 May 2015
This New Telegraph article features ARI’s most recent Policy Voice , “Modern African Remedies: herbal medicine and community development in Nigeria“, launched with Father Anselm Adodo, founder of...
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Citizens ‘Making Noise’: Keeping Track of Buhari’s Government By Jamie Hitchen
BudgIT was founded in February 2011 to collate and analyse publicly available Nigerian government data. By presenting information on government finance in an accessible and visually engaging format,...
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10 things to watch in Africa in 2016 By Nick Branson and Jamie Hitchen
Staying Power: Referenda in the Republic of Congo and Rwanda have paved the way for presidents Sassou Nguesso and Kagame to extend their tenures. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), President...
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State(s) of crisis: sub-national government in Nigeria by Paul Adams
March 2016 Download PDF In Nigeria’s March 2015 presidential election, the incumbent peacefully conceded defeat and transferred power to an opposition party for the first time since the end of...
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Nigeria’s “state of origin” conundrum
Government in Nigeria “is detached from its people at every level of the federation”, said Chidi Odinkalu, chair of the National Human Rights Commission, when interviewed for ARI’s 2016 briefing note...
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The view from Borno state by Mark Amaza
Government in Nigeria “is detached from its people at every level of the federation”, said Chidi Odinkalu, chair of the National Human Rights Commission, when interviewed for ARI’s 2016 briefing note...
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Nigeria: Have Your Say Interactive map
Government in Nigeria “is detached from its people at every level of the federation”, said Chidi Odinkalu, chair of the National Human Rights Commission, when interviewed for ARI’s 2016 briefing note...
View ArticleJustice without lawyers in Nigeria: How Lagos fashioned an alternative to...
On Thursday 22 June, ARI hosted the launch of “How alternative dispute resolution made a comeback in Nigeria’s courts”. The authors, Dr Emilia Onyema of SOAS, University of London, and Dr Monalisa...
View ArticleUndemocratic governance and local administration in Lagos State by Seun Akinyemi
Government in Nigeria “is detached from its people at every level of the federation”, said Chidi Odinkalu, chair of the National Human Rights Commission, when interviewed for ARI’s briefing note...
View ArticleIs Nigeria in need of restructuring? by Nwamaka Ogbonna
The latest buzzword among politicians from all sides in Nigeria is “restructuring”. The governing All Progressives Congress (APC) allegedly established a “restructuring committee” to articulate the...
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