Accessibility helpSkip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footer
  • Sign In
  • Subscribe
Open side navigation menuOpen search bar
Financial Times
SubscribeSign In
  • Home
  • World
    Sections
    • World Home
    • Middle East war
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
    Most Read
    • Meta global affairs chief Clegg to be replaced by Republican Kaplan
    • Tories seek UK probe into rape gangs as Musk spat with Starmer escalates
    • UK heading for tax rises despite return to growth, economists say
    • Trump uses New Orleans attack to push security and border agenda
    • Dollar surges against the euro and sterling
  • UK
    Sections
    • UK Home
    • UK Economy
    • UK Politics
    • UK Companies
    • Personal Finance
    Most Read
    • Tories seek UK probe into rape gangs as Musk spat with Starmer escalates
    • UK heading for tax rises despite return to growth, economists say
    • Dollar surges against the euro and sterling
    • Farage and why Badenoch does not have time to ‘watch this space’
    • Ten things to tick off your financial to-do list in 2025
  • Companies
    Sections
    • Companies Home
    • Energy
    • Financials
    • Health
    • Industrials
    • Media
    • Professional Services
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Tech Sector
    • Telecoms
    • Transport
    Most Read
    • Meta global affairs chief Clegg to be replaced by Republican Kaplan
    • Musk is standing in the way as Bezos reaches for orbit
    • Tesla’s annual deliveries drop for first time since 2011
    • Ten things to tick off your financial to-do list in 2025
    • Hedge funds Citadel and Millennium gain 15% in 2024
  • Tech
    Sections
    • Tech Home
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Semiconductors
    • Cyber Security
    • Social Media
    Most Read
    • Meta global affairs chief Clegg to be replaced by Republican Kaplan
    • Can France become a global AI powerhouse?
    • AI-generated phishing scams target corporate executives
    • US investors in China venture funds race to comply with new tech rules
    • Nvidia invested $1bn in AI deals in 2024
  • Markets
    Sections
    • Markets Home
    • Alphaville
    • Markets Data
    • Crypto
    • Capital Markets
    • Commodities
    • Currencies
    • Equities
    • Wealth Management
    • Moral Money
    • ETF Hub
    • Fund Management
    • Trading
    Most Read
    • Dollar surges against the euro and sterling
    • Ten things to tick off your financial to-do list in 2025
    • Hedge funds Citadel and Millennium gain 15% in 2024
    • Ex-crypto chief Do Kwon brought to New York to face fraud charges
    • Crypto industry dreams of a golden era under Trump
  • Climate
  • Opinion
    Sections
    • Opinion Home
    • Columnists
    • The FT View
    • The Big Read
    • Lex
    • Obituaries
    • Letters
    Most Read
    • Musk is standing in the way as Bezos reaches for orbit
    • Farage and why Badenoch does not have time to ‘watch this space’
    • Why it’s hard to be a friend of America
    • Things have to get worse to get better
    • Undersea sabotage response is a dangerous business
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
    Sections
    • Work & Careers Home
    • Business School Rankings
    • Business Education
    • Europe's Start-Up Hubs
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Recruitment
    • Business Books
    • Business Travel
    • Working It
    Most Read
    • Can France become a global AI powerhouse?
    • Secrets of an airline points millionaire
    • Pensions: the industry where women are in charge
  • Life & Arts
    Sections
    • Life & Arts Home
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Food & Drink
    • FT Magazine
    • House & Home
    • Style
    • Travel
    • FT Globetrotter
    Most Read
    • WNU, the fashionista’s favourite shirtmaker, now makes blazers, too 
    • One hundred million fans cannot make you famous
    • Secrets of an airline points millionaire
    • Social pressure holds back sales of alcohol-free drinks, research finds
    • Now this is a really nice rice pudding
  • HTSI
MenuSearch
  • Home
  • World
  • UK
  • Companies
  • Tech
  • Markets
  • Climate
  • Opinion
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
  • Life & Arts
  • HTSI
Financial Times
SubscribeSign In

Aanu Adeoye

West Africa correspondent

Aanu Adeoye is the west Africa correspondent for the Financial Times based in Lagos. He covers politics, business, technology and economics in the Ecowas member states and central African countries, with a particular focus on Nigeria.

He joined the FT in 2022 after completing a fellowship at Chatham House, where he researched Russia-Africa relations. Previously he was an editor and reporter in South Africa and Nigeria.

Email Aanu Adeoye @aanuadeoye  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Saturday, 21 December, 2024
    Nigeria
    Nigeria tax spat opens country’s smouldering north-south divide

    Critics warn President Bola Tinubu’s proposed changes to VAT distribution will help wealthier southern states

    People walk past the Nigerian National Assembly
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Shell tied new Nigeria offshore investments to approval for oil asset sale

    Approval for exit from operation at centre of decades of criticism over environmental impact marked sharp turnaround

    Bonga offshore production facility
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    OutlookAfrican economy
    Unfree movement — why can’t Africans travel around Africa?

    Citizens with local passports have more difficulty moving across the continent than European and American visitors

    Aerial view of Brazzaville with the Congo River and Kinshasa, Capital of Democratic Republic of the Congo in the background.
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Kemi Badenoch
    Nigeria’s vice-president launches attack on Badenoch

    Kashim Shettima’s comments follow criticism by Conservative leader of country where she grew up

    Kashim Shettima and Kemi Badenoch
  • Sunday, 8 December, 2024
    Ghana
    Opposition leader wins Ghana election as vice-president concedes

    Early votes show decisive rejection of incumbent party after years of economic turmoil

    John Mahama
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    News in-depthNigeria
    How Lagos’s nightlife lost its famous energy

    Nigerian president’s economic shock therapy has gutted the middle class and the megacity’s festive party scene

    Bature Brewery
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast13 min listen
    French prime minister faces no-confidence vote

    French government likely to fall after just 3 months in office over budget debate

  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    Energy Source
    Nigeria’s radical idea for car owners facing soaring petrol prices Premium content

    The government is encouraging citizens to convert their vehicles to run on compressed natural gas

    Customers refuel their vehicles with compressed natural gas at a filling station
  • Friday, 29 November, 2024
    Chad
    Chad ends defence pact with France

    Likely withdrawal of troops marks further retrenchment of French role in fighting Islamist insurgents in Sahel

    French and Chadian soldiers are seen at Faya-Largeau airport in northern Chad, preparing to board a Chadian national army CJ27 Spartan transport plane
  • Monday, 25 November, 2024
    African politics
    Military juntas in Africa’s ‘coup belt’ fail to contain extremist violence

    Fatalities have surged since dictatorships took power and turned to Russian mercenaries for help

    Niger leader General Abdourahamane Tiani, centre, waving to supporters gathered at a stadium in Niamey, Niger on July 26 2024
  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    News in-depthLebanon
    The man who links Donald Trump with war-torn Lebanon

    Massad Boulos, father of Tiffany Trump’s husband Michael, has met Middle Eastern politicians in the US

    Massad Boulos
  • Monday, 18 November, 2024
    Senegal
    Senegal’s ruling party on track to win big parliamentary majority

    Legislative elections set to give President Bassirou Diomaye Faye strong mandate to pursue ambitious reforms

    Bassirou Diomaye Faye casts his ballot at a polling station in Ndiaganiao, Mbour, Senegal
  • Sunday, 17 November, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Dangote seeks billions to boost crude supplies at new Nigerian refinery

    Africa’s richest man in talks with international banks for funds as he sets sights on ending country’s reliance on imports

    Aliko Dangote
  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    News in-depthMali
    Mali’s junta escalates fight with mining groups over profit share

    Resolute Mining chief and colleagues held as junta want greater share of gold producers’ profits

    Gold mining in quarry with truck loader
  • Monday, 11 November, 2024
    Resolute Mining Ltd
    Australian gold miner’s shares plunge after chief executive detained in Mali

    Resolute Mining says Terence Holohan and other executives were in Bamako to discuss claims made against company

    A mine worker wearing protective gloves hammers a large gold ingot after removing it from its mould
  • Wednesday, 6 November, 2024
    The Big Read
    Big Oil’s dirty legacy in Nigeria

    Who will clean up the environmental mess when Shell and others pull out of the Niger Delta?

  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    What to expect on US election night

    Don’t anticipate results tonight, but there will be some early indicators

  • Sunday, 3 November, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Shell fights to win approval for sale of Nigerian onshore business

    Energy major and prospective buyer in lobbying drive to overcome regulator’s objections to $1.3bn deal

    Aerial view of the Shell Awobo flow station in the Niger Delta
  • Tuesday, 29 October, 2024
    Fintech
    Nigeria-based fintech Moniepoint gains ‘unicorn’ status

    Company raises $110mn from investors including Google despite slowdown in fundraising for African start-ups

    Moniepoint logo and card
  • Sunday, 27 October, 2024
    News in-depthSenegal
    Senegal energy contracts review leaves investors uncertain

    Audit threatens African nation’s hard-won reputation as reliable place to do business, critics warn

    A man walks on the beach past an offshore gas terminal
  • Thursday, 24 October, 2024
    Energy Source
    Capital barriers in Africa could ‘fracture’ the energy transition Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, shale magnate says US democracy ‘would be safe’ under Trump

    Technicians carry a solar panel
  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
    Cryptocurrencies
    Nigeria drops money laundering charges against detained Binance executive

    US citizen who heads financial crime compliance at crypto exchange had been held since February

    Tigran Gambaryan at the federal high court in Abuja, Nigeria in April 2024
  • Monday, 21 October, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Nigeria rejects Shell’s planned sale of $1.3bn onshore production unit

    Decision comes on the same day as ExxonMobil wins approval for long-delayed asset sale in Niger Delta

    Oil covers stagnant water over Shell pipeline in Ogale, Rivers State, Nigeria, in February 2024
  • Monday, 21 October, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    Uber’s drive for ‘super app’ status

    The ride-hailing app is exploring a takeover of Expedia, which would be its biggest deal yet

  • Sunday, 20 October, 2024
    News in-depthBanks
    Nigerian banks race to raise capital after order to bolster balance sheets

    Central bank moves to promote stability in industry while country struggles with deteriorating economy

    Exterior of Central Bank of Nigeria headquarters in Abuja
Previous page You are on page 1 Next page

Useful links

Support

View Site TipsHelp CentreContact UsAbout UsAccessibilitymyFT TourCareersSuppliers

Legal & Privacy

Terms & ConditionsPrivacy PolicyCookie PolicyManage CookiesCopyrightSlavery Statement & Policies

Services

Share News Tips SecurelyIndividual SubscriptionsProfessional SubscriptionsRepublishingExecutive Job SearchAdvertise with the FTFollow the FT on XFT ChannelsFT Schools

Tools

PortfolioFT AppFT Digital EditionFT EditAlerts HubBusiness School RankingsSubscription ManagerNews feedNewslettersCurrency Converter

Community & Events

FT Live EventsFT ForumsBoard Director Programme

More from the FT Group

Markets data delayed by at least 15 minutes. © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2025. FT and ‘Financial Times’ are trademarks of The Financial Times Ltd.
The Financial Times and its journalism are subject to a self-regulation regime under the FT Editorial Code of Practice.
Edition:UK
International
Subscribe for full access

Top sections

  • Home
  • World
    • Middle East war
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
  • UK
    • UK Economy
    • UK Politics
    • UK Companies
    • Personal Finance
  • Companies
    • Energy
    • Financials
    • Health
    • Industrials
    • Media
    • Professional Services
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Tech Sector
    • Telecoms
    • Transport
  • Tech
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Semiconductors
    • Cyber Security
    • Social Media
  • Markets
    • Alphaville
    • Markets Data
    • Crypto
    • Capital Markets
    • Commodities
    • Currencies
    • Equities
    • Wealth Management
    • Moral Money
    • ETF Hub
    • Fund Management
    • Trading
  • Climate
  • Opinion
    • Columnists
    • The FT View
    • The Big Read
    • Lex
    • Obituaries
    • Letters
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
    • Business School Rankings
    • Business Education
    • Europe's Start-Up Hubs
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Recruitment
    • Business Books
    • Business Travel
    • Working It
  • Life & Arts
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Food & Drink
    • FT Magazine
    • House & Home
    • Style
    • Travel
    • FT Globetrotter
  • Personal Finance
    • Property & Mortgages
    • Investments
    • Pensions
    • Tax
    • Banking & Savings
    • Advice & Comment
    • Next Act
  • HTSI
  • Special Reports

FT recommends

  • Alphaville
  • FT Edit
  • Lunch with the FT
  • FT Globetrotter
  • #techAsia
  • Moral Money
  • Visual and data journalism
  • Newsletters
  • Video
  • Podcasts
  • News feed
  • FT Schools
  • FT Live Events
  • FT Forums
  • Board Director Programme
  • myFT
  • Portfolio
  • FT Digital Edition
  • Crossword
  • Our Apps
  • Help Centre
  • Subscribe
  • Sign In