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Bolanle Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu (Bola Tinubu)

Date of Birth: 29 March 1952
Place of Birth: Lagos


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Manufacturing consent and criminalising dissent

And rights and anti-corruption activists claim the political tactics used by President Bola Tinubu's government resemble the repressive rule of General Sani Abacha's junta in the 1990s...

Moves to curb dissent amid coup threats Ahead of another round of protests planned in October against the spiralling costs of living President Bola Tinubu's government wants to impose stiffer penalties on opposition activists...


Dangote and Tinubu wrestle over the future of oil

The threat of more mass protests and the spiralling cost of petrol over 1 000 naira (62 US cents) a litre in parts of Nigeria have played to Aliko Dangote's advantage in his latest battle with President Bola Tinubu's government (AC Vol 65 No 17 As the protests rage Tinubu risks losing the north)...

He might revise that view after his latest confrontation with President Bola Tinubu...


As the protests rage, Tinubu risks losing the north

For President Bola Ahmed Tinubu one of the most threatening elements of the ‘Days of Rage' protests against his government is their national spread stretching from the ‘usual suspects' in Lagos Port Harcourt and Abuja to the northern cities of Kaduna Kano Katsina and Borno (AC No 65 Vol 14 Tinubu's government braces for Kenya-style protests & 16 Days of rage protests test Tinubu's economic plans)...

Amid fractious politics the Northern elite sends a message In electoral terms Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the weakest president since the return to civil rule in 1999...


Days of rage protests test Tinubu’s economic plans

A month after Kenyan activists forced President William Ruto to drop plans for sweeping tax hikes President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's government has organised a comprehensive pre-emption campaign against the ‘Days of Rage' protests in Nigerian cities due to run from 1-10 August...

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Coming soon – a month of rage

Such complaints are turbo-charged in Nigeria where millions of young people have been caught in the crossfire of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's economic reforms...


Tinubu’s government braces for Kenya-style protests

Cardinal John Onaiyekan the Catholic Archbishop of Abuja and former President of the Christian Association of Nigeria called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's government to address the deteriorating economic conditions in the country to avoid a Kenya-style confrontation...


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