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In more sensible places, President Tinubu’s job approval rating is so woeful that he should have been job hunting by now. In the United Kingdom, the opposition would have called for snap elections to test his popularity and probably throw him out of 10 Downing. In the United States, his party faithful would have been so embarrassed […]
Continue ReadingAnglican Bishop of Ikwerre Diocese, in River State, Nigeria, Dr. Blessing Enyindah, has called on President Bola Tinubu to as a matter of urgency address the increasing hunger and hardship currently facing Nigerians. Many Nigerians have been begging the government to find solutions to the continued increase in the prices of food in the country. […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung has lambasted the Tinubu-led government for consistently attributing Nigeria’s economic challenges to ex-President, Muhammad Buhari. Taking to his X handle in a series of posts on Monday, Dalung argued that if Tinubu’s administration devoted the same resources and effort used during elections and tribunals to tackle […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Tinubu of Nigeria has been sighted sleeping during the 37th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union (AU) earlier on Saturday. During the 37th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Assembly held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a photograph surfaced capturing Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu who apparently slept off. The image, […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Tinubu will, on Thursday, depart Abuja for Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, to participate in the 37th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union Heads of State and Government. “The President will join other African leaders in high-level meetings on institutional reforms of the African Union; peace and security,” Tinubu’s Special […]
Continue ReadingThe last premier of the Western Region, Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola, asked his guest what the town was saying. The guest told him the town was solidly behind him. The guest backed his claim with a cassette which he said contained the adulation with which the people of Ibadan welcomed every step so far taken by Chief […]
Continue ReadingThe searing torment that everyday folks are going through in Nigeria right now is so dire, so unbearably extreme, and so unexampled in its rawness that even diasporan Nigerians like me who live tens of thousands of miles away from home can feel it not just vicariously but also experientially. The unending streams of requests […]
Continue ReadingFuji musician, King Wasiu Ayinde Marshall, aka KWAM 1, has been the official ‘palace entertainer’ for almost a decade. Evidently through the instrumentality of then All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, his ‘Nigeria, Sai Baba, Sai Buhari’ song that preceded the 2015 general election was a campaign anthem that also elicited an […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Tinubu arrived Abuja, Nigeria, on Tuesday night February 6, after a two-week private visit to Paris, France. The presidential jet landed at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport at about 9:00 pm. Tinubu was received by top government officials, including his Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila; Secretary to the Government […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Fuji singer, Wasiu Ayinde, popularly known as KWAM 1, has joined other Nigerians to cry out over the increased cost of living and rising insecurity in the country. KWAM 1, is the de facto official top campaign musician who plays at campaign rallies for the president’s political party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). In […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, jetted out of Nigeria for France on private visit. Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, disclosed this in a terse statement on Wednesday. The statement said the President is expected to be back to the country in the first week of February, 2024. “President Bola […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Tinubu has on Tuesday approved “cost-cutting” measures that involves slashing, by 60%, official entourage on local and international travels. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, disclosed this on Tuesday while briefing State House Correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Nigeria. Ngelale said the directive applied to the Offices […]
Continue ReadingPlaywright and Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, paid a courtesy visit to President Bola Tinubu in Lagos on Sunday and said he would reserve all his observations about Tinubu’s administration until one year into his tenure in May 2024. Soyinka described this as a personal policy of his, saying this one-year delay gives the President […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Tinubu has been a fighter on both sides in the contestation of power between the presidency and governors. Last Monday and for the umpteenth time since his inauguration as president, Tinubu more than ever before brought to the fore his determination to use his new podium in the presidency to dominate his environment. We have […]
Continue ReadingDiezani Alison Maduekwe, the embattled former Nigeria’s Petroleum Minister who served during the regime of President Goodluck Jonathan, and thereafter ran to the UK for fear of EFCC, has now begged Nigerian government for leniency. Diezani, who is reportedly suffering the second stage of cancer, is begging president Bola Tinubu to allow her come back […]
Continue ReadingFormer Rivers State Commissioner for Works and now a member of the Rivers Elders’ Forum, Chief David Briggs, has alleged that President Bola Tinubu imposed the resolution concerning the crisis in the state on Governor Siminalayi Fubara. Briggs, who said he attended the resolution meeting at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, insisted that the governor […]
Continue ReadingCritical stakeholders meeting convened by President Bola Tinubu to address the political crisis in Rivers State has instructed the immediate cessation of the impeachment proceedings against Governor Siminalayi Fubara, withdrawal of suits and six other resolutions. It also mandates the withdrawal of all court cases initiated by the governor, while recognizing the leadership of Hon. […]
Continue ReadingIt was 25 years ago; Saturday, 10 October, 1998 to be precise. We were all inside the living room of the Yaba, Lagos modest home of Frank Ovie-Kokori. We were waiting for our heroes. In the heat of the June 12, 1993 presidential election validation saga, Kokori was secretary-general of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum […]
Continue ReadingIn a predictable, premeditated, and carefully choreographed judicial charade, the Court of Appeal on Friday upheld the verdict of the Kano State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal that reversed the electoral triumph of NNPP’s Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State. I sincerely hope this assault on justice isn’t the spark that ignites an inferno in Kano—and […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, presented the N27.5 trillion 2024 budget proposal to a joint session of the 10th National Assembly in Abuja. See the full speech below: 1. In furtherance of my sacred duties and obligations as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, it is my honour to be here today to present […]
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