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Vol 66 No 11

Published 30th May 2025


Nigeria

Tinubu wants to borrow $24 billion ahead of 2027 elections

After two years of harsh reforms, the government aims to win back support with the country’s biggest ever public spending programme

As President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was preparing to mark two years in power on 29 May, his allies in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) declared the 73-year-old would have the party’s uncontested nomination to stand for another four-year term in the 2027 national elections. The streets of Lagos and Abuja are already festooned with billboards and banners urging Nigerians to ‘Step up, speak out and support Tinubu’ in a national ‘door-to-door’ campaign for the elections in two years’ time.

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