Governors to establish state police in coming weeks

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaGovernors to establish state police in coming weeks

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)February 16, 2024

President Bola Tinubu, on Thursday, gave his approval for the 36 State Governors to look into the creation of a state police that will cater for the security needs of each state of the federation, putting a stop to the years-long debate on the issue. The establishment of a state was one of the resolutions reached at a meeting between the President, Vice President Kashim Shettima, the governors, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory...

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Inflation shoots up to 29.90% as Nigerians lament high cost of living

EconomyNewsNigeriaInflation shoots up to 29.90% as Nigerians lament high cost of living

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)February 16, 2024

Nigerians continue to feel the pinch of President Bola Tinubu’s major decisions – scrapping the petrol subsidy and relaxing foreign exchange restrictions – as inflation climbed more than anticipated to a near 28-year high in January. The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, says Nigeria’s headline inflation rate increased to 29.90 per cent in January. Last month’s rate is a 0.98 per cent increase from the 28.92 per cent recorded in December 2023. Tinubu’s policies caused...

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FIFA ranks Super Eagles 28th in the world after AFCON performance

NewsNigeriaSoccerSportsFIFA ranks Super Eagles 28th in the world after AFCON performance

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)February 15, 2024

Despite losing the African Cup of Nations, AFCON, crown, the Super Eagles of Nigeria has been ranked the 28th national team in the world. AFCON winners Côte D’Ivoire reaped the rewards of their continental triumph on home soil by being the 39th team in the table. The new ranking released by FIFA today saw Nigeria make their biggest jump from 42nd in December 2023 to 28th globally. A run that saw the country reach the...

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Budget too little to keep up with the subsidy debt – Minister of Power, Adelabu

NewsNigeriaPoliticsBudget too little to keep up with the subsidy debt – Minister of Power, Adelabu

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)February 15, 2024

Two days after the International Monetary Fund, IMF, suggested the stoppage of electricity subsidies in Nigeria, the federal government is already considering discontinuing the subsidy. The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, said at a press briefing on Wednesday that it has become “very difficult to sustain subsidy on electricity” because of the subsidy debt hanging on the neck of the Nigerian government. The government’s debt to electricity-generating companies is running in trillions. It currently stands...

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Sixty Reps push for a return to the parliamentary system of government in Nigeria

NewsNigeriaPoliticsSixty Reps push for a return to the parliamentary system of government in Nigeria

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)February 15, 2024

Sixty members of Nigeria’s House of Representatives are pushing for a return to the parliamentary system of government. They argue that it would make for the efficient utilisation of the country’s resources. Nigeria adopted the presidential system in 1979 19 years after independence from Great Britain, borrowing from the model of the United States of America. The Representatives, from different party affiliations, think the American system has been nothing but a huge failure. The bill...

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Boss Mustapha: Emefiele fraudulently moved $6.2m by faking Buhari’s signature

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaBoss Mustapha: Emefiele fraudulently moved $6.2m by faking Buhari’s signature

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)February 14, 2024

The immediate past Secretary of the Government of the Federation, SGF, Boss Mustapha has accused Godwin Emefiele, a former central bank chief, of moving US$6,230,000 from the bank’s vault using forged signatures of himself and ex-President Muhammadu Buhari. The amount was reportedly withdrawn under Emefiele’s supervision on 8 February 2023 to pay international election observers who monitored the 2023 general election in Nigeria on 25 February and 18 March. In court on Tuesday, Mustapha exonerated...

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Fulani herdsmen attack Yobe villages, burn down houses

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaFulani herdsmen attack Yobe villages, burn down houses

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)February 14, 2024

The people of Gurjaje and Malari villages in Fika county of Yobe State are dressed in sorrow after a devastating attack on their communities on Monday night by herdsmen of the Fulani tribe. According to a Chad Basin security and counter-insurgency expert, Zagazola Makama, the attack was a reprisal for the pushback of the villagers after their watermelon farms were destroyed by the herdsmen’s cattle. The incident reportedly happened in January and in retaliation, the...

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Ned Nwoko pushes to legalise gun ownership by civilians for self-defense

NewsNigeriaPoliticsNed Nwoko pushes to legalise gun ownership by civilians for self-defense

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)February 13, 2024

Senator Ned Nwoko, the lawmaker representing Delta North senatorial district, wants the Senate to amend the existing law that prohibits Nigerians from bearing firearms for self-defence. The Firearms Control Act No. 32 of 1959 provides that no person shall have in his possession or under his control, any firearm or ammunition except such person has a license from the President or the Inspector General of Police. With the alarming escalation of attacks, abductions for ransom...

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Niger–Nigeria animosity deepens as governments impose flight restrictions

NewsNigeriaWest AfricaNiger–Nigeria animosity deepens as governments impose flight restrictions

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)February 13, 2024

“The airspace of the Republic of Niger is open to all national and international commercial flights from ground to unlimited except for Nigerian flights to or from Nigeria,” Niamey’s aviation authority announced on 6 February 2024. However, the ban does not apply to commercial flights that transit Nigerien airspace without landing in the country. “On the other hand, the Niger Republic airspace still remains closed for all military, operational and other special flights. These military...

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IMF advises Tinubu to scrap electricity subsidy amidst economic crisis

BusinessEconomyNewsNigeriaIMF advises Tinubu to scrap electricity subsidy amidst economic crisis

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)February 13, 2024

The International Monetary Fund, IMF, has praised President Bola Tinubu for embarking on reforms ex-Presidents Muhammadu Buhari, Goodluck Jonathan and Olusegun Obasanjo “shied away from.” According to the IMF, “The new administration has made a strong start, tackling deep-rooted structural issues in challenging circumstances. Immediately, it adopted two policy reforms that its predecessors had shied away from: fuel subsidy removal and the unification of the official exchange rates.” But the global financial institution admitted that...

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