Copyright © Africa Confidential 2026 President Bola Ahmed Tinubu approaches Nigeria's 16 January presidential election with the strongest political machine but little popular enthusiasm...
Nyesom Wike's talent for troublemaking has helped Nigeria's President Bola Ahmed Tinubu disrupt and co-opt large swathes of the opposition since 2023...
He had also been cultivating ties with Nigeria's President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the months before his death...
Copyright © Africa Confidential 2026 Recent polling shows rising anger among Nigerians about the economy and the cost of living with many blaming President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's reform agenda for worsening their living standards (Dispatches 6/7/26 New polls show rising anger with Tinubu on economy and security)...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's 2026 budget proposal assumed oil at $64...
That in turn could encourage President Bola Tinubu's government – with an eye on January's presidential elections – to offer limited relief measures to offset the impact of the crisis on the cost-of-living pressures for which fuel prices at near-record levels are a major part...
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Yet President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's record on security is one of his biggest weaknesses – even according to official statistics – as he campaigns for a second term in next February's elections...
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NIGERIA/US: A critical minerals agreement with the US signed on the margins of the UN General Assembly has prompted a flurry of interest from US mining firms with a series of deals announced at the St Regis Hotel in New York on 23 September attended by senior figures in President Bola Tinubu's retinue...
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Ahmed Tinubu attempted a version of Obasanjo's strategy by introducing a 15% tariff on petroleum imports but quickly rescinded it (Dispatches 16/2/26 State oil firm posts multi-billion profits before tax reforms bite & AC Vol 67 No 7 Tinubu's oil reforms hit a wall of old debts and new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)...
