DISPATCHES
It was the most political of opening ceremonies squeezed into the last days of Buhari's presidency before he hands over to Bola Ahmed Tinubu (also in attendance) on 29 May...
READ FOR FREE
The contracts need to be rushed through insiders said before President Bola Tinubu takes office on 29 May...
READ FOR FREE
Bola Ahmed Tinubu due to take over the Presidency from Buhari on 29 May insists that Lagos is the most populous state in the federation with 17...
DISPATCHES
The new government due to take office at the end of this month faces a dizzying array of financial and political challenges including questions about the health of its leader Bola Tinubu who has just returned to Abuja after a month's break in Paris...
READ FOR FREE
The opening gambit of Bola Tinubu's Presidency has been played – almost two months before he moves into the villa at Aso Rock...
Seemingly unworried about such questioning of his legitimacy the APC's Presidential candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu jetted off to Paris for a medical check-up last week...
It is a return match this time through proxies for the presidential election in which the godfather of Lagos politics Bola Tinubu was handed his first electoral defeat at the hands of Obi...
DISPATCHES
That may trigger a counter-claim by the ruling All Progressives' Congress (APC) whose presidential candidate Bola Tinubu was announced the winner on 1 March (AC Vol 64 No 5 Tinubu's last trick: from godfather to Kabiyesi)...
READ FOR FREE
At one end of the stage stands the official winner Bola Ahmed Tinubu whose victory was announced in the darkest hour before dawn on 1 March; at the other the thwarted opposition candidates Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi who are railing against systemic electoral fraud and threaten legal appeals to the Supreme Court (Dispatches 28/2/23 Tinubu edges to Presidential win as opposition and activists dispute the results)...
Older and more conservative voters are said to favour the veteran candidates Bola Ahmed Tinubu whose official age is 70 of the ruling All Progressives' Congress or Atiku Abubakar 76 of the opposition People's Democratic Party...