This puts the likes of Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Senegal's Macky Sall under pressure as they prepare to send troops...
Hailed by bankers and foreign investors President Bola Tinubu's decisions to end fuel subsidies and float the naira have collided with reality...
Tinubu's team takes a comedic bow Clad in a black suit replete with pocket square and spectacles former Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State was the first of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's 48 ministerial nominees to be screened and confirmed by Nigeria's Senate (AC Vol 64 No 16 Amid protests over spiralling prices Tinubu names new team)...
At the centre of the showdown between the junta and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is its chairman Nigeria's President Bola Ahmed Tinubu who had made ending the region's coup epidemic his mission...
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Spelling out sweeping reforms in the public sector President Bola Tinubu told Ajay Banga President of the World Bank in Abuja on 4 August that he was refocusing state spending to boost growth expand power generation and communications...
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Meeting in Abuja on 30 July leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) under the chairmanship of Nigeria's President Bola Ahmed Tinubu closed the frontiers banned all flights trade and energy shipments and froze all bank assets setting a one-week deadline for the restoration of constitutional order...
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The publication of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's list of 28 ministerial nominees on 27 July was held up for almost two months by tortuous negotiations over federal and partisan political balancing...
Nigerians are eagerly waiting to see President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's choice of ministers likely to be announced in the next days but he has already made many of key decisions that will shape his government...
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The big story in Abuja this week is President Bola Tinubu's cabinet – who's in and who's out...
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After the policy advisors around President Bola Ahmed Tinubu backed a shock therapy approach to ending fuel subsidies and floating the naira their next priority is to cushion the political and socio-economic fallout (AC Vol 64 No 12 Tinubu tries shock therapy on sluggish economy)...
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Money market traders and other investors have been reassessing Nigerian assets following President Bola Tinubu's suspension of central bank governor Godwin Emefiele after the end of the trading on 9 June...
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