A key question this article answers:
How can the new administration establish credibility and gain support in its first 100 days?
If you wanted to pick a bad time to be Nigeria’s president, you could hardly pick a worse year than 2023.
On May 29th, Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos State, will be sworn in as President and Commander-in-Chief of Nigeria’s Armed Forces, the crowning achievement of a long political career. The kingmaker has become king. But what he will receive from Muhammadu Buhari is less a crown than a grenade, with the pin pulled out.
Tinubu will step into a renovated Aso Villa and a domestic poly-crisis: Nigeria is in the middle of an economic crisis, a security crisis and a human capital crisis, all of which feed off one another in a vicious cycle, compounded by an increasingly volatile global environment. Untying these successive Gordian knots will
