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MICHAEL AVERY: Nigerian reforms show Ramaphosa’s paper tigers how it is done
President Bola Tinubu is gaining admirers for the speed with which he is implementing economic policies
26 June 2023 - 05:00
Nigeria’s newly elected president, Bola Tinubu, is gaining admirers in the market for the speed with which he is implementing a raft of positive economic reforms aimed at waking the sleeping African giant. SA’s eternal ditherer-in-chief, President Cyril Ramaphosa, would do well to heed Tinubu’s lessons.
Tinubu is a member of the same political party as his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, who was nicknamed “Baba Go-slow”, combining a term used across Africa for “father” with Nigerian slang for Lagos’ pervasive traffic congestion. Buhari took six months to appoint his cabinet...
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