Nigeria’s Tinubu pledges to remove fuel subsidy, deregulate gas prices
MACDONALD DZIRUTWE NIGERIA'S presidential frontrunner Bola Tinubu promised to remove a fuel subsidy if elected next February, adding that his government would ramp up oil production and deregulate midstream gas prices within six months. Nigerians will elect a successor to President Muhammadu Buhari, who steps down next year after serving the two presidential terms mandated by the constitution. The 70-year-old Tinubu, from Buhari's ruling All Progressives Congress, is a former state governor and senator of Lagos, the country's commercial capital. He launched his presidential manifesto in Abuja where he promised to create a Special Enforcement and Monitoring Unit to protect…