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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...
When Nigeria's National Security Advisor Nuhu Ribadu announced the arrest of two senior fighters affiliated with Al Qaida on 17 August officials cited it as another success for President Bola Tinubu...
Vol 66 No 17 |
- NIGER
- SAHEL
Tuggar has been trying to rebuild ties after President Bola Tinubu's failed ultimatum as Ecowas leader to Tiani two years ago (AC Vol 64 No 17 General Tiani opens the bidding)...
On most measures President Bola Tinubu has emphatically improved the position of the ruling All Progressives Congress in Nigeria – despite the unpopularity of many of its economic policies...
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