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  • 1 week ago | bbc.com | Mansur Abubakar

    Life is improving in Nigeria, Tinubu saysMansur AbubakarAFP via Getty imagesTinubu on assuming office pledged to tackle corruption and revamp the economyPresident Bola Tinubu has told Nigerians that the worst is behind them and that the country is getting better, in a speech to mark the end of his second year in office. Halfway through his term, Tinubu acknowledged the pain his reforms had unleashed, adding that he did not take the patience of Nigerians for granted.

  • 1 week ago | bbc.com | Mansur Abubakar

    Could Nigeria's careful ethnic balancing act be under threat? Mansur AbubakarAFP via Getty ImagesIn Nigerian politics, there has long been an informal understanding: presidential appointments should carefully balance the country's many ethnic and religious differences. Today, there are growing concerns that this is being ignored.

  • 2 weeks ago | bbc.com | Mansur Abubakar

    Nigeria's fierce political rivals share joke at pope's inaugural massMansur AbubakarBayo OnanugaPresident Tinubu (right) and Peter Obi (second left) fought a closely contested presidential election in 2023, while Kayode Fayemi (left) backed TinubuFierce Nigerian political rivals Peter Obi and President Bola Tinubu were seen laughing and joking at Pope Leo XIV's inaugural mass in Rome.

  • 1 month ago | bbc.com | Mansur Abubakar

    Benin admits that 54 soldiers killed in attack by al-Qaeda groupAFPA presidential spokesman described the killings as a “heavy loss”Benin's government has admitted that 54 soldiers were killed by suspected jihadists in the country's north last week near the borders with Burkina Faso and Niger. The authorities had previously said that only eight soldiers were killed.

  • 1 month ago | bbc.com | Mansur Abubakar

    Angry Nigerians are turning to social media to describe how they have been locked out of their accounts on the digital financial platform, CBEX. People have posted videos of themselves crying, saying that they could not withdraw their investments and worried that their money had gone. Some angry customers ransacked a CBEX office in the south-west city of Ibadan, carting off chairs, air-conditioners and a solar panel. CBEX has not yet publicly commented.

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