Rituals dating back centuries fill a grandiose ceremony marking the new parliamentary term. Here's a look at how it unfolded. The Imperial State Crown is carried into the House of Lords. Pic: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire The King's Speech marks the formal start of the parliamentary calendar, bringing together the monarchy, the House of Lords and …
A view of the newly-commissioned Dangote Petroleum refinery in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria May 22, 2023. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja/File Photo LONDON, July 28 (Reuters) - One of Europe's main markets for gasoline has shrunk, threatening to squeeze European refiners, after Nigeria removed fuel subsidies, which destroyed much of the country's domestic demand and a regional market for …
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President Bola Tinubu has set about reforming Nigeria’s economy at breakneck speed. For some multinationals that have suffered more than a decade of economic chaos, the measures have come too late. Procter & Gamble, GSK, Sanofi and Bayer — among the world’s biggest consumer companies — are leaving, handing over the risk of operating in Africa’s most-populous nation to …
A half century of banditry in Nigeria Since well before Nigeria’s return to elective governance in 1999, the country has been overtaken by a progressive escalation of what Hannah Arendt in her classic On Violence called “a massive intrusion of criminal violence into politics.” In contemporary Nigerianism, the word for this is “banditry”. “Bandits” is a conveniently …
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In this section /EXECUTIVE SUMMARY EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Nigeria is a federal republic composed of 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. In 2019, citizens re-elected President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress party to a second four-year term. Legislative elections were also held in 2019. Most independent observers agreed the elections were credible despite …
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