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Vol 65 No 20

Published 4th October 2024


Nigeria

Manufacturing consent and criminalising dissent

A split opposition allows President Tinubu to co-opt parliament and crack down hard on protestors

Many Nigerians say the country is going through the worst hardship for 30 years, with an economy blighted by spiralling prices, capital flight and grand corruption. And rights and anti-corruption activists claim the political tactics used by President Bola Tinubu’s government resemble the repressive rule of General Sani Abacha’s junta in the 1990s. The fact that several of Abacha’s allies, Budget Minister Atiku Bagudu and billionaire contractor Gilbert Chagoury, are now close to Tinubu tells its own story, say the activists.

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