Vol 65 No 13 |
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The Nigérien and Nigerian Hausa business elite as influential in Niamey and Maradi as in Kano and Abuja were frustrated by the confrontation between the junta and the initially hawkish posture of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu pressuring both sides to soften...
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In Kenya he attended the first commander's meeting of the Joint Terrorism Task Force in Kenya (JTTF-K) which included the heads of each participating agency while his itinerary in Nigeria including meetings with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and National Security Advisor Nuhu Ribadu...
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As he prepares to mark a year in office President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has received a scorecard from his Political Advisor Hadiza Bala Usman which contains an evaluation of 45 ministers in his cabinet (AC Vol 65 No 3 Shock therapy keeps the people waiting)...
And on Thursday Faye was in Abuja to meet the incumbent Ecowas chair Nigeria's Bola Ahmed Tinubu before talks with Ghanaian counterpart Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in Accra the next day...
' 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...