Last year President Bola Ahmed Tinubu attempted a version of Obasanjo's strategy by introducing a 15% tariff on petroleum imports but quickly rescinded it (Dispatches 16/2/26 State oil firm posts multi-billion profits before tax reforms bite & AC Vol 67 No 7 Tinubu's oil reforms hit a wall of old debts and new sabotage)...
He deleted social media posts trumpeting his appointment to a presidential commission by US President Donald Trump after allies of Nigerian President Bola Tinubu dismissed the relevance of the role as irrelevant to US-Nigeria relations...
This legal battle will test President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's government less than six months ahead of national elections: does it prioritise the protection of a national oil refining champion over the credibility of its regulatory authorities...
Nigeria's relationship with Niger has yet to recover fully from President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's proposal that Ecowas should invade the country after the 2023 military coup an idea soon abandoned as impractical (AC Vol 66 No 22 Tinubu courts juntas as Ecowas resets security ties)...
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With an eye of February's election and his declining popularity President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is promising the biggest expansion of military force since the civil war five decades ago...
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For President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's government it was a bitter reminder that Nigeria's security crisis had crossed from the policy arena into popular culture...
His Abuja visit is likely to set the agenda for the August Washington meeting and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's government will be anxious to show progress – or at least competence – ahead of that encounter...
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After months in which President Bola Tinubu's strategists seemed to have neutralised his rivals by exploiting divisions in the main opposition camps a couple of new opinion polls have upset their assumptions of an easy victory in January's presidential elections...
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President Bola Tinubu's government has drawn the first tranche of US$1...
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Vol 67 No 13 |
- BENIN
- SAHEL
These were the second and third stops on a regional tour that began with a meeting at the Lagos home of Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu and continued with visits to Togo's Faure Gnassingbé and Côte d'Ivoire's Alassane Ouattara...
NIGERIA'S FORWARD-OIL DEALS The IMF's warning on 9 June to President Bola Tinubu's government of the financial risks of a US$5 billion loan package via a series of derivative contracts with the First Abu Dhabi Bank in the United Arab Emirates follows mounting unease about the Gulf State's high interest loans to Ethiopia and Kenya and the political concessions it exacts from those governments...
