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Nigeria

Population: 213.4m
GDP: $440.8bn
Debt: 38.6% of GDP (2023 forecast)

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Pushback tests Tinubu's tilt to the market

Anger on the streets is mounting in the wake of spiralling food and fuel

Hailed by bankers and foreign investors, President Bola Tinubu's decisions to end fuel subsidies and float the naira have collided with reality. The measures are fuelling the highe...


Naira politics rules – but the pace picks up

Federal lawmakers jostle to run the most lucrative committees in Abuja as accountability plummets

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 ...


Tinubu's team looks for shock absorbers

Having chosen to push through radical reforms in the government's first weeks, officials are scrambling to address the political consequences

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 ...


Tinubu tries shock therapy on sluggish economy

Ending subsidies, selling oil assets and devaluing the naira are on the agenda as the new government goes for growth

Proclaiming the end of fuel subsidies at his inauguration on 29 May and his intention to merge the multiple exchange rates for the beleaguered naira, President Bola Tinubu signalle...

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When – not if – Emefiele leaves the bank

The central bank governor's days appear to be numbered as President Tinubu changes economic tack – and lines up a handy scapegoat

Making clear his position on Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Godwin Emefiele's future, President Bola Tinubu announced the bank needed 'house-cleaning' in his inaugural speech on ...


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