Kebbi Governor Nasir Idris cried sabotage alleging internal collusion – a charge President Bola Ahmed Tinubu endorsed...
RESHUFFLING THE DIPLOMATIC AND SECURITY DECKS After over two years of leaving multiple vacancies in the diplomatic service – including ambassadors to Washington DC London Paris and Beijing – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed about 35 top officials to head Nigerian missions across the world...
Vol 66 No 24 |
- GUINEA BISSAU
Embaló's chief electoral opponent and the man thought most likely to win the election Fernando Dias da Costa president of the Partido da Renovação Social (PRS) managed to avoid arrest and found refuge in the Nigerian embassy in Bissau under the guarantee of President Bola Tinubu...
The second months earlier seems prescient: President Bola Ahmed Tinubu addresses the National Assembly in Abuja and casts an eye towards once powerful PDP: ‘It is a pleasure to see you in such disarray...
Jonathan's approach changed early this year when he criticised Bola Tinubu's suspension of Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State and the state of emergency as well as the judiciary's role in the travails of his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)...
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A group around the Oba of Benin Omo n'Oba n'Edo Uku' Akpolokpolo Ewuare II declared the bronzes belonged to him not to Edo State government a claim that was backed by Governor Okpebholo and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu (AC Vol 65 No 23 Cultural and political battles break out as the stolen bronzes come home)...
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Vol 66 No 22 |
- NIGERIA
- SAHEL
This is driving President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to intensify outreach to the Sahelian regimes...
Abuja was encouraged by rating agency Moody's upgrade of Nigerian debt from Caa1 to B3 premised mainly on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's reforms – such as floating the naira eliminating the fuel subsidy and boosting tax revenues through a tougher centralised collection regime (AC Vol 66 No 5 Tinubu aims for Africa's top economy slot)...
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Rejecting Washington's 31 October designation of Nigeria as a country which violates religious freedom President Bola Ahmed Tinubu said it did ‘not reflect our national reality'...
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The tortuous bargaining between international oil companies – Shell TotalEnergies and ExxonMobil – and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's government over new investments has hit a succession of legal and regulatory issues mostly centred around responsibility for an environmental clean-up in the Niger Delta estimated to cost tens of billions of dollars...
Unconvinced Sahara Reporters cited anonymous Defence Intelligence Agency sources who claimed the officers were plotting to overthrow President Bola Ahmed Tinubu during independence day celebrations on 1 October...
As tensions deepen between President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the managing director of the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Bashir Bayo Ojulari the government plans to claw back some of the company's financial autonomy...
OIL TAX CHANGES COULD TRIGGER NEW POLITICAL FIGHT The main pushback to President Bola Tinubu's tax changes is coming from the northern governors especially those in the north-east whose states are the main beneficiaries of the frontier fund...