Tinubu's Reforms: S&P Upgrades Nigeria's Outlook to Stable Analysts warn country may face geopolitical risks over Niger GlaxoSmithKline’s exit, bad omen for Nigeria’s business environment, Atiku, Obi lament Ndubuisi Francis and Gabriel Emameh in Abuja Global rating agency, Standard and Poor's (S&P) has upgraded
Nigeria’s credit outlook to stable from negative on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s planned reforms. However, despite the improved rating, the debt assessor still scored
Nigeria at B-, six notches into junk and on par with Bolivia and Barbados. It also warned that Nigeria may also face geopolitical risks tied to the
recent coup in neighboring Niger. This is coming as the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general election, Atiku Abubakar, and his
counterpart in the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi have lamented the planned exit of the British pharmaceutical giant, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), from Nigeria after more than five decades
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Rerun: We’ve Done Our Calculation Well, Tinubu Won't Be on Ballot, LP Claims Says president misled by lawyers and trying to hoodwink judges Tinubu’s election on shaky grounds, Atiku’s aide insists
Gabriel Emameh in Abuja The Obi-Datti Campaign Organisation yesterday declared that with the damning evidence before the Presidential Election
Petition Court (PREPEC) in Abuja against President Bola Tinubu, he would not participate in the rerun election should the poll be annulled. Also, the Special Assistant on Public Communication to Atiku
Abubakar, Mr. Phrank Shaibu, said that there is palpable fear in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on the likelihood of the court upturning the election of President Tinubu.
Spokesperson and Head of Media of the organisation, Mr. Diran Onifade, told THISDAY yesterday that President Tinubu's legal team did not only mislead him but also effortlessly tried to hoodwink the
Justice Haruna Tsammani-led five-man panel. President Tinubu had last Tuesday appealed to the justices of the PREPEC to exclude the presidential candidate of the LP, Mr. Peter Obi,
and his party in the event of any rerun presidential election, claiming that only he and the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Continued on page 5
Senate Urges Tinubu to Explore Political, Diplomatic Solutions in Niger Republic Asks Akpabio, principal officers to meet Tinubu France backs ECOWAS bid to quash Nigerien coup Atiku, PDP govs, NWC caution against war Niger’s junta seeks Russia’s Wagner group’s help to combat ECOWAS military threat Chuks Okocha and Sunday Aborisade in Abuja and John Shiklam in Kaduna The efforts by the Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to reinstate the ousted President Mohamed Bazoum of Niger Republic by military action yesterday suffered a setback as the Senate yesterday urged President Bola Tinubu to explore political and diplomatic solutions to restore democracy in the troubled country. President Tinubu, who is the Chairman of ECOWAS, and other leaders of the sub-regional body rose from an emergency extraordinary meeting in Abuja, last Sunday with a call on the coup plotters to reinstate President Bazoum within seven days or be forced out by military action. The ECOWAS leaders, who insisted that Bazoum was the Continued on page 5
AUGUST VISITOR… President Bola Tinubu (left), and Chairman, Globacom, Dr. Mike Adenuga Jr, when Adenuga visited the president at the Presidential Villa in Abuja…Friday