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Nigeria

Population: 227.71m
GDP: $199.72bn
Debt: 50.68% of GDP (2024)

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Tinubu courts juntas as Ecowas resets security ties

Abuja is forging fresh partnerships as jihadist violence spreads and trust frays in the wake of military rule

With security collapsing across the Sahel and imperilling West Africa, Nigeria is pushing to rebuild military partnerships with the ruling juntas in Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali –...


Tinubu’s policy paradox

Food prices, shrinking purchasing power and insecurity underscore the disconnect between praise for reforms and everyday hardship

Abuja’s Debt Management Office ploughed on with a US$2.25 billion Eurobond launch on 5 November, despite market ructions triggered by United States President Donald Trump’s threats of military...


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Tinubu pushes back as Trump threatens military action over ‘killing of Christians’

US President says any attack would be ‘fast, vicious and sweet’ after Abuja officials claim separatist lobbyists are misleading Washington

Rejecting Washington’s 31 October designation of Nigeria as a country which violates religious freedom, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu said it did ‘not reflect our national reality’. He added...

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The Tinubu-Shell trade-off behind a $7.5 billion investment

UN experts warn that international oil companies’ opaque sales to local consortia flout environmental and human rights laws

The tortuous bargaining between international oil companies – Shell, TotalEnergies and ExxonMobil – and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government over new investments has hit a succession of legal...


Coup plot or not

Mobile phones started buzzing on 17 October about a thwarted coup plot, fired up by a story on Sahara Reporters on the arrest of 16 officers ‘over issues...


Escalating violence could reshape Tinubu’s plan for 2027 vote

Northern states have been hit hardest by jihadist insurgents together with banditry and kidnapping alongside murderous herder-farmer clashes

When Nigeria’s National Security Advisor, Nuhu Ribadu, announced the arrest of two senior fighters affiliated with Al Qaida on 17 August, officials cited it as another success for...


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Fortress Nigeria promises to buy local

The government wants to build a border fence to keep out insurgents

Defence chiefs are preparing the ground for major changes on border security and domestic procurement. At a security conference in Abuja in the week-ending 7 June, Chief of...

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