' Many bankers and economists expressed concern over the vulnerability of Nigeria's economy after President Bola Tinubu used his inauguration speech on 29 May last year to announce a liberalisation programme long championed by the World Bank IMF and international financial media...
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President Bola Tinubu's government appears keen to offer incentives to domestic oil and gas firms to take over their assets...
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The Chadian and Nigerien military are close but relations were dented when Nigerian President Bola Tinubu succeeded in persuading Kaka to ask the junta in Niamey to release President Mohamed Bazoum from his detention since 26 July...
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The CBN circular restated President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's aspiration for Nigeria to become a trillion-dollar economy – a plan that has taken a beating due to the precipitate fall of the naira exchange rate over the past nine months...
Today Ibori is one of many Abacha-era fixers to resurface on the political stage in Abuja after Bola Ahmed Tinubu took over the Presidency last May...
Once convicted in Geneva for laundering money stolen by military leader Sani Abacha and in the United States for illegal political contributions these days Chagoury is feted by France's President Emmanuel Macron and ex-US President Bill Clinton and most of all by Nigeria's Bola Ahmed Tinubu as a philanthropist (AC Vol 65 No 13 Tinubu summons the ghosts of Abacha's kleptocracy)...
' TINUBU'S FRENCH CONNECTION President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's relationship with Gilbert Chagoury started on a chilly note after the demise of General Sani Abacha in June 1998...
But the victory of his friend and business partner Bola Ahmed Tinubu in last year's presidential elections brought him back centre stage...
Double-edgedBut it also poses awkward questions for establishment leaders such as Alassane Ouattara in Côte d'Ivoire or Nigeria's Bola Ahmed Tinubu – both of whom saw their election victories in 2020 and 2023 mired in controversy...
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Having served as political chief in the US Embassy in Abuja FitzGibbon had strong relations with President Bola Tinubu's government there...
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A spate of murderous attacks and kidnappings is vying for President Bola Tinubu's attention alongside the continuing cost-of-living crisis (AC Vol 65 No 2 Abductions prompt security alert)...
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The cost-of-living crisis is becoming the most serious political challenge facing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's government a year after it was elected...
Opposition battles its internal demons In 2012 Bola Tinubu helped to lead a national coalition of opposition parties and radical activists to galvanise Nigerians into nationwide protests after President Goodluck Jonathan removed the petrol subsidy...