Within hours of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu proclaiming 'the end of fuel subsidies' at his inauguration on 29 May the pump price for gasoline had almost tripled at filling stations across the country (Dispatches 1/6/23 New President Tinubu ends fuel subsidy and lambasts central bank in inaugural speech)...
Giadom was blocking a slew of contracts being hurried through before the expected change in Environment Minister under whom HYPREP operates when President-elect Bola Tinubu takes office on 29 May (AC Vol 64 No 10 Minister sacks oil clean-up boss as graft fears grow)...
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Peppering his inaugural speech on 29 May with promises of big economic changes Nigeria's new President Bola Tinubu skirted questions about his health the legitimacy of his election and the country's mounting debt obligations (AC Vol 64 No 7 Tinubu faces legitimacy challenge)...
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Ahead of the scheduled 29 May inauguration of President-elect Bola Tinubu there are two key procedural hurdles: he has to resolve the fight over the leadership of both houses of the National Assembly and he has to see off an immediate court challenge to his legitimacy as a presidential candidate by the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (AC Vol 64 No 7 Tinubu faces legitimacy challenge)...
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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...
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The contracts need to be rushed through insiders said before President Bola Tinubu takes office on 29 May...
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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...
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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...
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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...