The FT Weekend Podcast - Anu Adiyoye and Lila Reptopolis

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Anu Adiyoye is the FT's West Africa correspondent. She says that Nigeria has not been making a lot of money from its oil reserves. The pair talk to Daniel Kwan and Daniel Shiner, best director nominees for Everything Everywhere All At Once. You can also hear an interview with another Oscar nominee, Ruben Osland.

UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt will on Friday take on rightwing Tory MPs by rejecting calls for big tax cuts in his Budget, Brazil and Argentina’s leftwing leaders push ahead with common currency plan despite questions over unequal benefits, and Nigeria has begun a high-stakes attempt at London’s High Court to overturn an $11bn arbitration award.

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Jeremy Hunt to defy rightwing Tory MPs by rejecting calls for Budget tax cuts

Economists question South American currency plan

Nigeria begins UK court bid to overturn $11bn arbitration award

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