Copyright © Africa Confidential 2026 Recent polling shows rising anger among Nigerians about the economy and the cost of living with many blaming President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's reform agenda for worsening their living standards (Dispatches 6/7/26 New polls show rising anger with Tinubu on economy and security)...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's 2026 budget proposal assumed oil at $64...
That in turn could encourage President Bola Tinubu's government – with an eye on January's presidential elections – to offer limited relief measures to offset the impact of the crisis on the cost-of-living pressures for which fuel prices at near-record levels are a major part...
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Yet President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's record on security is one of his biggest weaknesses – even according to official statistics – as he campaigns for a second term in next February's elections...
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NIGERIA/US: A critical minerals agreement with the US signed on the margins of the UN General Assembly has prompted a flurry of interest from US mining firms with a series of deals announced at the St Regis Hotel in New York on 23 September attended by senior figures in President Bola Tinubu's retinue...
Last year President Bola Ahmed Tinubu attempted a version of Obasanjo's strategy by introducing a 15% tariff on petroleum imports but quickly rescinded it (Dispatches 16/2/26 State oil firm posts multi-billion profits before tax reforms bite & AC Vol 67 No 7 Tinubu's oil reforms hit a wall of old debts and new sabotage)...
He deleted social media posts trumpeting his appointment to a presidential commission by US President Donald Trump after allies of Nigerian President Bola Tinubu dismissed the relevance of the role as irrelevant to US-Nigeria relations...
This legal battle will test President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's government less than six months ahead of national elections: does it prioritise the protection of a national oil refining champion over the credibility of its regulatory authorities...
Nigeria's relationship with Niger has yet to recover fully from President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's proposal that Ecowas should invade the country after the 2023 military coup an idea soon abandoned as impractical (AC Vol 66 No 22 Tinubu courts juntas as Ecowas resets security ties)...
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With an eye of February's election and his declining popularity President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is promising the biggest expansion of military force since the civil war five decades ago...
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For President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's government it was a bitter reminder that Nigeria's security crisis had crossed from the policy arena into popular culture...
His Abuja visit is likely to set the agenda for the August Washington meeting and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's government will be anxious to show progress – or at least competence – ahead of that encounter...
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After months in which President Bola Tinubu's strategists seemed to have neutralised his rivals by exploiting divisions in the main opposition camps a couple of new opinion polls have upset their assumptions of an easy victory in January's presidential elections...
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