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Very few presidents get the unhappy privilege of previewing the full gamut of worries that will torment their presidency all within their first 100 days. President Bola Tinubu is lucky to belong in this rare collection. In less than a hundred days in office, he has faced challenges in the key areas that make or […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Tinubu’s proposal for a military intervention to restore democratic rule in Niger Republic has been rejected by the Nigerian senate. This is coming after the Nigerian leader who is also the Chairman of regional bloc, Economic Community of West Africa (ECOWAS) wrote the national assembly on Friday, August 4, seeking the lawmakers’ support […]
Continue ReadingAccording to impeccable sources, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) on Monday switched off the grid that supplies electricity to Niger Republic in response to a directive from President Bola Tinubu. It was the first of several measures to force out the military junta that seized power in the country last week Wednesday. Also on Monday, the […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, let me tell you from the outset and without equivocation that I voted “against” the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the February 25th presidential election. And if the opportunity arises again, I will repeat the same thing, whether in the rain or in the scorching sun. It […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Tinubu has written to Nigerian Senate seeking its support for military intervention and the already cutting off of electricity to the country against the military junta in the Niger Republic. Nigeria’s president and the Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Tinubu, had on Sunday met with some fellow ECOWAS […]
Continue ReadingSuccessive administrations in Nigeria start out by apprehending demons, or enigmatic forces, against which they will test their political strength and define the character of their government. Those forces are the factors on which all evil bedevilling the nation must necessarily be blamed. From coup speeches to inauguration addresses, each administration launches itself by stating […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Tinubu addressed Nigerians on Monday about the state of the nation. See the full text of his address below: My fellow citizens, I want to talk to you about our economy. It is important that you understand the reasons for the policy measures I have taken to combat the serious economic challenges this […]
Continue ReadingAnxiety over President Bola Tinubu’s proposed cabinet members was finally laid to rest on Thursday when the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, unveiled the ministerial list. Some immediate past governors including Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State, Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and David Umahi of Ebonyi State made the list. Tinubu’s Ministerial List consists […]
Continue ReadingInitial applauses from Bretton Woods and some local economists that greeted the economic reforms of the Bola Tinubu presidency were deafening. The reforms were termed bold and courageous. The most surgically painful of them, which drilled deep down into the marrows of Nigerians, was the removal of fuel subsidy. In a country that is almost […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of trying to harass and compromise the judiciary. Atiku and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) are challenging the declaration of Bola Tinubu, candidate of the APC, as the winner of the 2023 presidential election by the […]
Continue ReadingBola Tinubu, Nigeria’s new president, was determined to hit the ground running from his first day in office. He was haunted by the ghost of his somnolent predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, who sat desultorily on his hands, doing nothing for the first six months of his administration in 2015. Unlike Buhari, who was called, and relished […]
Continue ReadingLawyer and Human Right Activist, Silas Joseph Onu, Esq., has carried out a full blown analysis of the petition of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) against APC, Tinubu, Shettima, and INEC, noting that the case is actually on invalid nomination and not double nomination. According to Mr. Onu’s point of view, forget about justice in […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Tinubu has been scheduled to travel to Nairobi, Kenya on Saturday July 15, to participate in the Fifth Mid-Year Coordination Meeting (5thMYCM) of the African Union (AU), the Regional Economic Communities (RECs), the Regional Mechanisms (RMs), and the African Union Member States. A statement issued by Special Adviser to the President (Special Duties, […]
Continue Reading“Show me your friends; and I will tell you who you are.” How he deals with Festus Keyamo might turn out to be one of the acid tests of President Tinubu’s sincerity in tackling governance in Nigeria. Right in front of our eyes, Keyamo committed three grave offences which, in any other country where the […]
Continue ReadingWith just one witness, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, his Vice, Kashim Shetima and the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday closed their respective defence in a petition by the Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi who are seeking nullification of the February 25 presidential election. The Senate Majority Leader, Michael Opeyemi […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Ahmed Tinubu is on a roll. He is basking in the glow of praises that have been heaped on him for the removal of petrol subsidies, reinstatement of a managed currency float at the Investors and Exporters (I&E) window of the foreign exchange market, as well as signing the Student Loan Bill and […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Tinubu has joined other Nigerian Muslims to perform the Eid-el-Kabir prayers at the Dodan Barracks Praying Ground in Lagos. The president was accompanied by Mr Nuhu Ribadu, National Security Adviser, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, Chief of Staff to the President, Mr Babatunde Fashola, a former Lagos State Governor and other top government functionaries. In […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Tinubu arrived in Lagos State on Tuesday from his private visit to London after an outing at the Paris Finance Summit. However, what should have been a “quiet” arrival, quickly became a spectacle of some sort with the long motorcade that followed the president to his new private residence. In a video that […]
Continue Reading“See Paris and die!” We used to hear that as young persons. Paris was meant to be the most exotic spot of European civilization, an intellectual capital and the reference point for the Renaissance – Francis !1, Cardinal Richelieu, Loui XIII, Louis XIV, and the ideas-driven salons of Paris. But that was in the past. […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Tinubu has renamed some federal government-owned airports after some notable Nigerians including late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the immediate past president, Muhammadu Buhari, Okadigbo, Tunde Idiagbon, Oba Akenzua II, Samuel Ladoke Akintola, and so on. The development was contained in a memo dated June 1, signed by Mrs Joke Olatunji for the Director of […]
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