Spotlight | Nigeria
Tinubu manoeuvres to install Godswill Akpabio in top Senate job

Nigeria's president-elect Bola Tinubu in Abuja on 1 March 2023.
Nigeria's president-elect Bola Tinubu in Abuja on 1 March 2023. © Kola Sulaimon/AFP
There is keen competition for the post of Senate president, a key role in Nigerian public life. The president-elect is hoping to install his protégé, the former governor of Akwa Ibom, but it is by no means certain he will succeed. [...]
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