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Bolanle Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu (Bola Tinubu)

Date of Birth: 29 March 1952
Place of Birth: Lagos


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No policy shifts as Tinubu reshuffles

Five months after receiving a performance report on his 45 ministers President Bola Tinubu finally reshuffled his cabinet sacking five ministers and making seven new ones raising the total to 47...

The Chair of the Federal Inland Revenue Service Zacch Adedeji is an ally of President Bola Tinubu...


Tinubu dismantles the opposition in Edo

President Bola Tinubu ate his dish of revenge lukewarm last month when he orchestrated the defeat of the main opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) in the Edo State governorship election just four years after he was embarrassed in the state where the slogan ‘Edo no be Lagos' (Edo cannot be like Lagos) set up Governor Godwin Obaseki for victory (AC Vol 61 No 19 Edo's not so merry-go-round)...


Manufacturing consent and criminalising dissent

And rights and anti-corruption activists claim the political tactics used by President Bola Tinubu's government resemble the repressive rule of General Sani Abacha's junta in the 1990s...

Moves to curb dissent amid coup threats Ahead of another round of protests planned in October against the spiralling costs of living President Bola Tinubu's government wants to impose stiffer penalties on opposition activists...


Dangote and Tinubu wrestle over the future of oil

The threat of more mass protests and the spiralling cost of petrol over 1 000 naira (62 US cents) a litre in parts of Nigeria have played to Aliko Dangote's advantage in his latest battle with President Bola Tinubu's government (AC Vol 65 No 17 As the protests rage Tinubu risks losing the north)...

He might revise that view after his latest confrontation with President Bola Tinubu...


As the protests rage, Tinubu risks losing the north

For President Bola Ahmed Tinubu one of the most threatening elements of the ‘Days of Rage' protests against his government is their national spread stretching from the ‘usual suspects' in Lagos Port Harcourt and Abuja to the northern cities of Kaduna Kano Katsina and Borno (AC No 65 Vol 14 Tinubu's government braces for Kenya-style protests & 16 Days of rage protests test Tinubu's economic plans)...

Amid fractious politics the Northern elite sends a message In electoral terms Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the weakest president since the return to civil rule in 1999...


Days of rage protests test Tinubu’s economic plans

A month after Kenyan activists forced President William Ruto to drop plans for sweeping tax hikes President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's government has organised a comprehensive pre-emption campaign against the ‘Days of Rage' protests in Nigerian cities due to run from 1-10 August...

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Coming soon – a month of rage

Such complaints are turbo-charged in Nigeria where millions of young people have been caught in the crossfire of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's economic reforms...


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