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...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has repeatedly praised Aliu for his ‘transformative role' in Nigeria's energy sector and his contributions to economic progress as a member of the Presidential Economic Coordination Council...
9 million votes at the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary President Bola Tinubu is confident of a resounding victory at the January 2027 polls...
For a moment Nigeria's battered opposition looked as though it had agreed a unity formula that might unpick President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's political pre-eminence...
If they are able to win convincingly in the south-east and south-south as well as the vote-rich north-west they stand a chance of upsetting President Bola Tinubu's electoral tactics...
When Nigeria's President Bola Ahmed Tinubu quietly dropped his longtime ally Wale Edun as Finance Minister on 21 April describing the sacking as ‘a resignation on health grounds' he drew a line under two years of arguments over policy and opted for Taiwo Oyedele a former partner of British-based PwC auditors and Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Tax Reform...
That is also a clear sign that Atiku rather than Peter Obi the presidential candidate of the Labour party in 2022 and another recent defector to the ADC sees himself as the leading contender to take on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu next January as the party's flagbearer...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu came to office in May 2023 promising to reverse two decades of decline in Nigeria's petroleum sector and on paper the progress is real: a long-running dispute over OPL 245 has been settled US$20 billion in field development plans approved and 50 oil blocks put up for licence...
ABACHA'S CORRUPT LEGACY AND A NEW BIDDING ROUND Nigeria obtained no major oil investments between 2015 and 2023 but now President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has turned the tide by resolving several long-standing disputes...
President Bola Tinubu has built close relations with French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in recent years (AC Vol 65 No 25 Macron tilts to Anglophone Africa after Sahelian exits)...
4 billion a 15% increase on the plan tabled in December President Bola Tinubu is leaving little to chance ahead of his re-election bid in January 2027 (AC Vol 67 No 3 Tinubu gambles heavily on ‘fairer' taxes)...
