When Nigeria's President Bola Ahmed Tinubu quietly dropped his longtime ally Wale Edun as Finance Minister on 21 April describing the sacking as ‘a resignation on health grounds' he drew a line under two years of arguments over policy and opted for Taiwo Oyedele a former partner of British-based PwC auditors and Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Tax Reform...
That is also a clear sign that Atiku rather than Peter Obi the presidential candidate of the Labour party in 2022 and another recent defector to the ADC sees himself as the leading contender to take on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu next January as the party's flagbearer...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu came to office in May 2023 promising to reverse two decades of decline in Nigeria's petroleum sector and on paper the progress is real: a long-running dispute over OPL 245 has been settled US$20 billion in field development plans approved and 50 oil blocks put up for licence...
ABACHA'S CORRUPT LEGACY AND A NEW BIDDING ROUND Nigeria obtained no major oil investments between 2015 and 2023 but now President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has turned the tide by resolving several long-standing disputes...
President Bola Tinubu has built close relations with French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in recent years (AC Vol 65 No 25 Macron tilts to Anglophone Africa after Sahelian exits)...
4 billion a 15% increase on the plan tabled in December President Bola Tinubu is leaving little to chance ahead of his re-election bid in January 2027 (AC Vol 67 No 3 Tinubu gambles heavily on ‘fairer' taxes)...
Vol 67 No 6 |
- NIGERIA
- BRITAIN
When they meet Nigeria's President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on his 18-19 March state visit hosted by Britain's King Charles III at Windsor Castle some politicians in the ruling Labour Party may betray some pangs of envy towards a ruthless political leader who managed to co-opt almost all his opponents over the past two years...
Opposition activists claim that the new electoral act hurriedly signed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is aimed at disqualifying all the substantive opposition from contesting in national elections next January and that it will retain a margin of manoeuvre for its loyalists to declare fraudulent results...
Nigeria which is targeting TotalEnergies to expand its operation will also send a high-level delegation having upgraded relations under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu (AC Vol 67 No 4 Britain plays the King)...
Until now President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had managed to stave off the worst threats from Washington by a combination of pushing back diplomatically against the most egregious claims and dispatching National Security Advisor Nuhu Ribadu to negotiate a new security cooperation pact with Secretary for Defense (aka War) Pete Hegseth and pushing through sales worth US$346 million of US bombs and rockets for Nigeria's military...
On the back foot since President Bola Ahmed Tinubu made France the centrepiece of his foreign policy Britain is trying to restore its waning relationship with Nigeria...
To the nationalist juntas in the Sahel Nigeria is becoming an enforcement partner for France – a potentially risky position for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as domestic critics accuse him of prioritising French interests over the security of citizens...