After the policy advisors around President Bola Ahmed Tinubu backed a shock therapy approach to ending fuel subsidies and floating the naira their next priority is to cushion the political and socio-economic fallout (AC Vol 64 No 12 Tinubu tries shock therapy on sluggish economy)...

Many African heads of state have confirmed they will attend including Bola Tinubu of Nigeria Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa and Abdel Fattah el Sisi of Egypt...

Proclaiming the end of fuel subsidies at his inauguration on 29 May and his intention to merge the multiple exchange rates for the beleaguered naira President Bola Tinubu signalled that he would take on two of the most politically charged economic policies...

Making clear his position on Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Godwin Emefiele's future President Bola Tinubu announced the bank needed 'house-cleaning' in his inaugural speech on 29 May...

Within hours of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu proclaiming 'the end of fuel subsidies' at his inauguration on 29 May the pump price for gasoline had almost tripled at filling stations across the country (Dispatches 1/6/23 New President Tinubu ends fuel subsidy and lambasts central bank in inaugural speech)...

Giadom was blocking a slew of contracts being hurried through before the expected change in Environment Minister under whom HYPREP operates when President-elect Bola Tinubu takes office on 29 May (AC Vol 64 No 10 Minister sacks oil clean-up boss as graft fears grow)...

Ahead of the scheduled 29 May inauguration of President-elect Bola Tinubu there are two key procedural hurdles: he has to resolve the fight over the leadership of both houses of the National Assembly and he has to see off an immediate court challenge to his legitimacy as a presidential candidate by the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (AC Vol 64 No 7 Tinubu faces legitimacy challenge)...