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Nigeria’s North-South Divide Thwarts Tinubu Quest to Raise Taxes - BLOOMBERG

APRIL 16, 2025

Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has seen a key part of his economic reform agenda rebuffed by lawmakers, exposing a century-old fracture in national politics between the country’s wealthier Christian south and predominantly Muslim north.

That setback is pressuring a budget that’s also being strained by President Donald Trump’s trade war, which has collapsed the price for oil — the mainstay of the Nigerian economy — while thwarting Tinubu’s goal to boost revenue in Africa’s most-populous nation.

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