Senate receives second batch of minister-nominees from Tinubu

Nearly a week after sending the first batch of minister-nominees to the Senate for ratification, President Bola Tinubu has sent another list comprising 19 names. The list was delivered to the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio by Femi Gbajabiamila, the Chief of Staff to the President, on Wednesday. The new list contains nominees from the eleven states, namely Adamawa, Bayelsa, Gombe, Kano, Kebbi, Kogi, Lagos, Plateau, Osun, Yobe and Zamfara which did not get a slot...

Fuel Subsidy Hardship: Borno State Targets 1.8 million People for Assistance

Borno State Government has targeted more than 1.8 million vulnerable people across the state with a new palliative initiative to cushion the impact of the removal of fuel subsidies. Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State, who flagged off the distribution exercise at Muna IDP camp in Jere Local Government Area, said the state has keyed into the presidential food emergency declaration. He said under the initiative, each eligible beneficiary will receive 0N5,00 cash, a bag...

Labour Presidential Candidate Loss Cell Phone To Thieves In Court

The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the February 25 presidential election, Mr. Peter Obi lost his phone on Tuesday while sitting at the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) at the Court of Appeal in Abuja. Obi, who was dressed in his usual black attire sat close to his running mate, Ahmed Baba Datti throughout the court’s proceedings, but his phone was allegedly stolen. Obi discovered that his mobile phone was missing after court...

Mass Labour Protest Against Some Federal Government Policies

The organized labor comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) has carried out mass protests across the country including the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Protesting workers have gathered in different locations in various states before embarking on the peaceful protest to press for demands which include among others immediate implementation of the resolutions with the congress signed with the Government and TUC. Others demand the reversal of the recent hike in...

Governor Fintiri Claims Some Politicians are Behind Recent Looting of Warehouses

Adamawa State Governor, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri has alleged that some politicians in the state masterminded the vandalization of public and private warehouses by hoodlums on Sunday. The Governor made the allegation in a statewide broadcast however admitted that people are going through hard times. “Preliminary findings from the investigations suggest that besides the purported claim to the economic crunch which is propelled by the innate trait of criminality, is the inducement of some lazy politicians...

Court Orders Okowa To Account for Over N200bn UBEC Funds

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the administration of the immediate past Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa to account for the spending over N200bn public funds collected from the Universal Basic Education Commission, (UBEC). The judgement followed a suit filed by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP). The Presiding Judge, Justice Daniel Osiagor directed the Delta State Governor Sheriff Oborevwori to disclose details of budgetary allocations and actual spending by...

Tinubu orders federal universities to stop school fees hike

President Bola Tinubu has issued a directive to federal universities across the country to put an end to the increment in school fees. “President Tinubu has directed the authorities in all federal institutions of higher learning to avoid an arbitrary increase in sundry fees payable and where possible defer further increase so that parents and students don’t face too many difficulties,” Dele Alake, the President’s special adviser on special duties, communications and strategy, stated in...

Tinubu Reveals Plan to Cushion Biting Effects of Subsidy Removal in National Address

President Bola Tinubu has let Nigerians in on the measures he has taken to address the current economic challenges wrought by the removal of fuel subsidies. In a national broadcast on Monday night, the President explained the reason his administration had to do away with fuel subsidies and the multiple exchange rate system. He also allayed the fears of Nigerians on the current state of Nigeria’s economy, saying, “We are exiting the darkness to enter...

 Audu Ogbe, Prof. Adibe weigh in on Tinubu’s nationwide broadcast

President should’ve set the tone for reconciliation – Prof. Adibe Tinubu has addressed key things holding Nigeria down – Ogbe President Bola Tinubu in a nationwide broadcast on Monday said among other things that his government has saved over N1trn from subsidy removal policy in two months. He also talked about monitoring effects of exchange rate, inflation on gasoline prices. The President said that his government is set to spend N75bn between the months of...

Akinyemi berates S/Africa for insinuating Niger Coup happened because of Tinubu’s illegitimate govt

Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, former Minister of Foreign Affairs has bertaed South Africa for insinuating that the coup in Niger happened because of the illegitimacy of President Bola Tinubu’s government. The former Minister in an interview on Monday said that the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) which Tinubu chairs is supposed to be the first to react to the coup in Niger, rather the African Union (AU) was the first to react in a...

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