Vol 62 No 8 |
- NIGERIA
- ECONOMY
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo continues to champion the Nigeria Economic Sustainability Plan introduced last year to respond to coronavirus-driven disruption and promises targeted policy to guide the economy in the longer term...
As Tinubu tries to recover ground the technocratic Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo a former protégé of Tinubu's like most politicians from the south-west is also a contender but may have to mend some fences in the party and with Buhari if he is to consolidate his claim...
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DISPATCHES
As Buhari's second term hits its mid-point in June jockeying for the succession within the governing All Progressives' Congress will intensify with three candidates from the south-west in the frame: Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo Ekiti State governor and chairman of the Governors' Forum Kayode Fayemi and former governor of Lagos State Bola Tinubu...
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo remains publicly optimistic that the Nigeria Economic Sustainability Plan (NESP) he champions will speed Nigeria's return from recession to growth...
August 2018: Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo during President Muhammadu Buhari's medical leave in London orders the 'immediate overhaul' of SARS after a succession of well documented reports of abuses...
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Now the race for the APC presidential nomination looks more open with several candidates from the South-West near the top of the list: Tinubu Fayemi Works and Housing Minister Babatunde Fashola and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo...
The modest impact so far of stimulus and related policy measures championed by the finance ministry Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor Godwin Emefiele and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo's Nigeria Economic Sustainability Plan (NESP) is accompanied by fears over fast-rising public debt and fiscal deficits...
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo who chairs the government's Economic Sustainability Committee launched the country's 'Bounce Back' plan in June for a post-pandemic economic reset...
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo had earlier suggested that mini-refineries should be licensed but that might have been stymied by the power of the fuel import lobby...
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and several of the country's most senior ministers recommended hard-hitting reforms to rein in the sprawling and notoriously unaccountable state oil company earlier this year – only for the measures to be shelved Africa Confidential can reveal...