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Appointing Bashir Ojulari as Group Managing Director who with his new team formally took over the management of the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on 5 April fits with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's goals of restoring Nigeria's oil production to 2 million barrels a day (b/d) by 2027 and to 3m b/d by 2030 (AC Vol 65 No 25 Tinubu prepares to present 2025 budget)...
Kida was earlier bidding for the Managing Director post at NNPC helped by the lobbying efforts of his business partner the Franco-Lebanese billionaire Gilbert Chagoury the financial advisor to military ruler General Sani Abacha and now to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu (AC Vol 65 No 8 Abacha consigliere in storm over $11 billion superhighway linking Lagos and Calabar)...
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Instead the winners are President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his National Security Advisor Nuhu Ribadu: both are dabbling in provincial politics and with good reason...
The strategy is to secure votes in the Muslim north and the Christian south with President Bola Tinubu's team claiming an advantage...
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President Bola Tinubu's imposition of a state of emergency in oil-producing Rivers State where crude pipelines have been damaged in a series of attacks has secured parliamentary support – but has been condemned as partisan politicking by the opposition...
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A full-throated public relations campaign is under way to show that President Bola Tinubu's reforms are bearing fruit after two troubling years with most Nigerians hit by a cost-of-living crisis and over 30 million suffering acute food insecurity...
The appointment of Yusuf Maitama Tuggar as President Bola Tinubu's Foreign Minister in May 2023 was one of the more imaginative cabinet choices (AC Vol 64 No 16 Amid protests over spiralling prices Tinubu names new team)...
The museum project is believed to have had close ties to former Governor Godwin Obaseki who has since fallen out with President Bola Tinubu (AC Vol 65 No 21 Tinubu dismantles the opposition in Edo)...
Political opponents of President Bola Tinubu caution that the GDP rebasing exercise will be used to spin a narrative of economic growth and greater prosperity...
With electioneering expected to start in 2026 this year will test the opposition's resolve to form a mega party that could unseat President Bola Tinubu and his All Progressives Congress (APC)...
Widespread scepticism greeted President Bola Tinubu's ‘Budget of Restoration' when he presented it to the National Assembly on 18 December – mainly due to doubts about the oil revenues that are projected to fund 40% of planned N47...
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Vol 66 No 1 |
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In an interview on Christmas Day Gen Tiani referred to a state visit by Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu to Paris in late November as a source of the conspiracy...
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