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Buhari's heavyweights line up to face Abubakar in 2023 presidential election

The candidate of the main opposition party, the People's Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar. © Reuters

By the end of next week, the names of the candidates of the two main parties competing in Nigeria's presidential election, the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party, will be known. Yet who will stand is still far from clear. [...] (571 words)

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NIGERIA
Abdullahi Umar Ganduje
All Progressives Congress
Aminu Tambuwal
Atiku Abubakar
Bola Tinubu
Goodluck Jonathan
Ifeanyi Okowa
Kayode Fayemi
Lawali Shuaibu
Muhammadu Buhari
Nyesom Wike
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Redeemed Christian Church of God
Rotimi Amaechi
Yemi Osinbajo

Palace intrigues: Macky Sall, Sébastien Lecornu, Cellou Dalein Diallo and Atiku Abubakar

Small stories and intriguing affairs. Every Tuesday, Africa Intelligence goes behind the scenes of the continent's seats of power - and beyond. This week: Macky Sall and Kyiv; Paris and Rabat's Armed Forces ministers; Cellou Dalein Diallo avoids Canada; and the Nigerian opposition leader's low-key Euro trip. [...]

NIGERIA Politics 13/06/2022

The Northern dream team behind APC candidate Bola Tinubu

The former governor of Lagos, Bola Tinubu, easily secured the candidacy of the ruling party All Progressives Congress with the support of key figures that will back him in his race for president in February 2023. [...]

Bola Tinubu won the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary. © Sunday Aghaeze/Imago/Reuters

AFRICA 26/05/2022

Kagame and Buhari keep a grip on AU intelligence

Intelligence gathering in African countries is the poor relation of the African Union. It has been managed for some years by two omnipresent member countries, Rwanda and Nigeria. [...]

Rwandan president Paul Kagame and his Nigerian counterpart Muhammadu Buhari. © Gian Ehrenzeller/Daniel Irungu/EPA/MaxPPP

Nigeria's Transport Minister Rotimi Amaechi. © Twitter/@MinTransportNG

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NIGERIA Infrastructures Politics 14/12/2021

Rotimi Amaechi stakes presidential ambitions on rail expansion

With elections scheduled for 2023, the transport minister is stepping up investments, riding on projects set in motion by the previous government. [...]

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari, here during the 75th anniversary celebrations of UNESCO. © Julien de Rosa/ POOL/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

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CHAD NIGERIA Diplomacy 03/12/2021

Buhari and Kingibe pursue their top-secret mediation efforts in N'Djamena

Under the watchful gaze of the Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari, his special envoy for the Lake Chad basin, Baba Gana Kingibe, is continuing to do his best to contain the instability in Chad, which could pose a threat to Nigeria's borders. [...]

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NIGERIA Politics 02/04/2021

Fiscal watchdog turns into repository for Buhari's darlings

The once feared Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission now provides a home for people waiting to bounce back into public life or those whom governors need to thank for services rendered. [...]

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NIGERIA MOROCCO Mining Business 10/03/2021

After many delays, OCP plants Moroccan flag in Niger Delta

Phosphates giant OCP has at last found land to build its future fertiliser plant in the heart of Africa's largest market. [...]

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Kayode Fayemi
Lawali Shuaibu
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