Bola Ahmed Tinubu

Nigeria
Tinubu hires Latimer Energy founder as energy adviser

Nigeria President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's new special adviser on Energy, Olu Verheijen, boasts a long career in oil and gas. She came highly recommended by Adebayo Olawale Edun, the president's éminence grise.

The New Guard
Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Congo

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence spotlights a new generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

Nigeria Oladosu brings ecofeminism to Paris summit

Ivory Coast Anguié, leading light of Abidjan cybersecurity

Senegal Thiam, a young activist fighting for African heritage

Congo The Obo brothers, Brazzaville's bureaucrat-farmers

Palace Intrigues
Macky Sall, Denis Sassou Nguesso, Mahamat Idriss Déby, Abdelfattah Al-Sisi, Paul Biya, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Félix Tshisekedi, Umaro Sissoco Embalo

Intrigues big and small: every Tuesday, Africa Intelligence takes a peek into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond.

Senegal Sall talks with his inner circle

Senegal, Congo, Chad, Egypt, Nigeria Paris summit attendees stay in city's finest hotels

DRC Tshisekedi's birthday Bentley

West Africa Indonesian president turns down ECOWAS summit invite

Nigeria
Tinubu reforms imperil Ebury and Wema Bank's forex business model

For the last year, the British and Nigerian partners have been helping foreign companies, among them France's TotalEnergies, to repatriate their profits in naira to Europe. But the liberalising of Nigeria's foreign exchange market could harm this lucrative line of business.

Nigeria
Friends of Nigeria nurtures closer ties between Paris and Abuja

The association that uses its networks to help European companies gain a foothold in Nigeria is counting on the newly elected president to restore the image of Africa's largest economy in European business circles.

Nigeria
US lobbying firm Ballard Partners hires ex-minister with ties to Tinubu

With Bola Ahmed Tinubu in office, those working in the field of political influence are scrambling to hire people capable of weighing in on discussions with Nigeria's new administration. US firm Ballard Partners has made some headway.

Central African Republic, South Africa
Touadéra pays visit to Gupta brothers' Indian base

The Central African president Faustin Archange Touadéra recently travelled to Dehradun to meet the Gupta brothers, who have applied for asylum in his country to escape prosecution in South Africa.

Nigeria
Kano bigwig Rabiu Kwankwaso vies for seat in Tinubu government

Kano senator Rabiu Kwankwaso wants the job of minister of the Federal Capital Territory in Nigerian president Ahmed Bola Tinubu's new government. In exchange, he is offering to join his New Nigerian People's Party with Tinubu's APC coalition.

Nigeria
Macron to send minister Zacharopoulou to Nigeria for president-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu's inauguration

The French State Secretary for Development, Francophonie and International Partnerships Chrysoula Zacharopoulou is expected to travel to Nigeria to attend president-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu's inauguration on 29 May.

The New Guard
Gabon, Tanzania, Nigeria, Botswana

Every Wednesday, Africa Intelligence spotlights a new generation of movers and shakers in business and politics.

GabonCyril Pellen Aubian, from sustainable development to politics

TanzaniaAmar Shanghavi, from trees to carbon

NigeriaOluseun Onigbinde, transparency first

BotswanaPako Sebetlela wants to breathe fresh life into mining sector

Africa
Emmanuel Macron, Andry Rajoelina, Denis Sassou Nguesso, Mohamed Médiène

Intrigues big and small: every Tuesday, Africa Intelligence takes a peek into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond.