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Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu stands next to his predecessor Muhammadu Buhari during his swearing-in ceremony in Abuja

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Premium badgeNigeria faces inflation spike as President Tinubu promises end to fuel subsidy

Nigeria’s newly inaugurated President, Bola Tinubu, has put an end to the long-standing petrol subsidy, which has drained billions of dollars from the...

© Benue State Governor Hyacinth Alia (photo: twitter)

the exorcist

Premium badgeNigeria: Can this suspended priest deliver Benue State from bloodshed?  With the inauguration of 18 new governors in Nigeria, we look at the profile of incoming state executives. Today, we delve into the profile of Hyacint...
© A view of the newly-commissioned Dangote Petroleum refinery in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria May 22, 2023. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja

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Premium badgeWill Dangote’s Refinery solve Nigeria’s fuel consumption problems? President Muhammadu Buhari commissioned the Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical Plant, the world’s largest single-train refinery, on 22 May in Lagos am...
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Nigeria: Can today’s young artists live up to the masters of modern Nigerian art? The 1960s and 70s were an interesting time for Nigerian art. The artists who would become the vanguards of modern art in the country had just complete...

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Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu stands next to his predecessor Muhammadu Buhari during his swearing-in ceremony in Abuja

new broom

Premium badgeNigeria faces inflation spike as President Tinubu promises end to fuel subsidy Nigeria’s newly inaugurated President, Bola Tinubu, has put an end to the long-standing petrol subsidy, which has drained billions of dollars from the...
© Benue State Governor Hyacinth Alia (photo: twitter)

the exorcist

Premium badgeNigeria: Can this suspended priest deliver Benue State from bloodshed?  With the inauguration of 18 new governors in Nigeria, we look at the profile of incoming state executives. Today, we delve into the profile of Hyacint...
© A view of the newly-commissioned Dangote Petroleum refinery in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria May 22, 2023. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja

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Premium badgeWill Dangote’s Refinery solve Nigeria’s fuel consumption problems? President Muhammadu Buhari commissioned the Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical Plant, the world’s largest single-train refinery, on 22 May in Lagos am...

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Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu stands next to his predecessor Muhammadu Buhari during his swearing-in ceremony in Abuja

new broom

Premium badgeNigeria faces inflation spike as President Tinubu promises end to fuel subsidy Nigeria’s newly inaugurated President, Bola Tinubu, has put an end to the long-standing petrol subsidy, which has drained billions of dollars from the...
© Benue State Governor Hyacinth Alia (photo: twitter)

the exorcist

Premium badgeNigeria: Can this suspended priest deliver Benue State from bloodshed?  With the inauguration of 18 new governors in Nigeria, we look at the profile of incoming state executives. Today, we delve into the profile of Hyacint...
© A view of the newly-commissioned Dangote Petroleum refinery in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria May 22, 2023. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja

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Premium badgeWill Dangote’s Refinery solve Nigeria’s fuel consumption problems? President Muhammadu Buhari commissioned the Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical Plant, the world’s largest single-train refinery, on 22 May in Lagos am...

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Premium badgeNigeria: Cassava Republic presents ‘And Then He Sang a Lullaby’ Twice a month, we bring you an excerpt from a book to be published by the Nigeria-based Cassava Republic, a renowned publisher on the continent, leadi...
Bola Ahmed Tinubu declared winner in Nigeria’s presidential election

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Nigeria: Will Tinubu be sworn in on Monday? There is no doubt that Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State and current president-elect, is a master strategist and natural born winner who has al...
© Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress party in Abuja, Nigeria, March 1, 2023. Ben Curtis/AP/SIPA

paris in spring

Nigeria’s Tinubu back from France, just before his inauguration With only a few days to go before his inauguration on 29 May, Nigeria’s President-elect, Bola Tinubu paid a lightning visit to Paris for another short...
African Union holds annual heads of state and government summit

Everywhere but nowhere

Premium badgeHow Buhari’s foreign trips failed to boost FDI  President Muhammadu Buhari is one of Nigeria’s most travelled presidents, having visited 43 countries – some more than once – in search of foreign dir...
© Nigerian ‘cults’ originated here, in Benin City, and have morphed into global organised crime groups. (A street in Benin City, capital of Edo State, southern Nigeria. (Joseph Egabor8/Photo12/Alamy)

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Nigeria: Tracing the rise of ‘cult’ groups to an ‘African Mafia’ From Benin City, Nigeria, to Palermo, Marseille, and beyond: Nigerian criminal groups have succeeded in developing their trafficking activities in Afr...
Nigeria’s President Buhari stands next to Aliko Dangote, CEO of the Dangote Group, during the commissioning of Dangote Petroleum refinery in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos

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Premium badgeNigeria: Buhari commissions world’s largest single-train refinery President Muhammadu Buhari attended the commissioning of the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemical Plant in Lagos on Monday – the country’s fir...