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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President Bola Tinubu's government has drawn the first tranche of US$1...
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Vol 67 No 13 |
- BENIN
- SAHEL
These were the second and third stops on a regional tour that began with a meeting at the Lagos home of Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu and continued with visits to Togo's Faure Gnassingbé and Côte d'Ivoire's Alassane Ouattara...
NIGERIA'S FORWARD-OIL DEALS The IMF's warning on 9 June to President Bola Tinubu's government of the financial risks of a US$5 billion loan package via a series of derivative contracts with the First Abu Dhabi Bank in the United Arab Emirates follows mounting unease about the Gulf State's high interest loans to Ethiopia and Kenya and the political concessions it exacts from those governments...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has repeatedly praised Aliu for his ‘transformative role' in Nigeria's energy sector and his contributions to economic progress as a member of the Presidential Economic Coordination Council...
9 million votes at the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary President Bola Tinubu is confident of a resounding victory at the January 2027 polls...
For a moment Nigeria's battered opposition looked as though it had agreed a unity formula that might unpick President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's political pre-eminence...
If they are able to win convincingly in the south-east and south-south as well as the vote-rich north-west they stand a chance of upsetting President Bola Tinubu's electoral tactics...
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...
