Trump’s trade war upends Nigeria’s economy, but where’s Tinubu?

Bola Tinubu, Nigeria’s junketing president, chose the same week that Donald Trump, America’s ultra-protectionist president, unleashed a global trade war to go on a two-week “working visit” abroad. As the world reeled from Trump’s tariff blitz, the deepest and most sweeping in a century, leaders of most other countries were hands on deck at home.

President Emmanuel Macron of France, where Tinubu was hibernating, actively reached out to his fellow European leaders to coordinate the EU’s response. The British prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, s