' President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has cultivated a large following in Isale Eko the heart of Lagos State and the richest metropolis in the country...
Whether it is the 1 400-strong Nigerian delegation to the UN COP28 climate summit in Dubai or the supplementary budget that allocated US$35 million to items such as a presidential yacht or a fleet of four-wheel drive vehicles for the office of the First Lady President Bola Tinubu's government doesn't appear to worry about persuading voters...
The Central Bank of Nigeria's second successive postponement of a bi-monthly meeting of its influential monetary policy committee (MPC) in November points to dissension behind the scenes of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's All Progressives Congress (APC) administration...
One is that Cardoso and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu fundamentally disagree over interest rates...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is feted in the south-west as a canny kingmaker turned king but politicians in other regions are accusing him of ethnic sectionalism...
A third election in oil-producing Bayelsa state was also won by a candidate close to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu although he was nominally in an opposition party...
Ruling party man in the opposition Part of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's plan to retain power beyond 2027 rests on Nyesom Wike former Governor of Rivers State who defected from the PDP ahead of the presidential polls earlier this year in exchange for a seat in Tinubu's cabinet (AC Vol 63 No 18 Opposition fall-out shakes up election plans)...
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That could explain the presence in Riyadh of Eritrea's Issayas Afewerki and South Sudan's Salva Kiir in addition to regional heavyweights including Nigerian President Bola Tinubu Kenyan President William Ruto Rwanda's Paul Kagame and Ethiopian premier Abiy Ahmed...
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President Bola Tinubu's ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) had a convincing win in two out of three state elections at the weekend as turnout slumped below 30%...
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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu welcomed a verdict that forensically dismantled the grounds for an award against Nigeria with interest exceeding US$11 billion a third of the country's reported foreign exchange reserves and more than it spends a year on health and education (Dispatches 24/10/23 Abuja gets $11bn claim on gas deal overturned in London's High Court)...
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That so many Nigerians expected the Supreme Court to confirm Bola Tinubu's victory in this year's Presidential elections reflects a consensus about the judiciary rather than the merits of the head of state...
