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$4.5bn Oil-Backed Loan: Tinubu is weapon fashioned against Nigeria – Atiku

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By Omeiza Ajayi ABUJA: Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has condemned the National Economic Council’s NEC approval of a $4.5 billion refinancing of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company NNPC Limited’s oil-backed loan, describing President Bola Tinubu as a weapon fashioned against Nigeria’s economy. In a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, […] The post $4.5bn Oil-Backed Loan: Tinubu is weapon fashioned against Nigeria – Atiku appeared first on Vanguard News.

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