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Former Niger Delta militant, Asari Dokubo, has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu not to release Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Dokubo made the call after he visited President Tinubu in Aso Rock on Friday. He said Kanu should be made to face the law because releasing him will […]
Continue ReadingFollowing a summon issued on him, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, yesterday produced before the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja, a document that contained President Bola Tinubu’s age. The document, known as Form EC9, was an affidavit of personal particulars which President Tinubu submitted to the […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has on Thursday, appointed Nuhu Ribadu, Dele Alake, Wale Edun and five others as Special Advisers. According to a release issued by State House Director of Information, Mr. Abiodun Oladunjoye, President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of eight Special Advisers. Among them are Mr. Dele Alake, Special Adviser, Special Duties, […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has suspended the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), AbdulRasheed Bawa, from office indefinitely. Director of Information in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Willie Bassey, who stated this in a statement on Wednesday, disclosed that the suspension was meant to ensure investigations […]
Continue ReadingNigerian president, Bola Tinubu on Monday addressed Nigerians to commemorate the 2023 Democracy Day with promises to respect rule of law and reward Nigerians for their sacrifices on subsidy removal. Read his full speech below: TEXT OF DEMOCRACY DAY NATIONAL BROADCAST BY PRESIDENT BOLA AHMED TINUBU ON JUNE 12, 2023. Fellow Nigerians, 2. It is […]
Continue ReadingAsiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has walked into a minefield with which he is very familiar. He had his own mines in the field, of course. They had been well laid out for over two decades, and with verifiable results. Many of his former opponents are either flat on their backs, are nursing injuries, or are […]
Continue ReadingElder statesman and Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, says he won’t comment much on the Bola Tinubu presidency until the conclusion of the election petitions tribunal where the outcome of the February 25 presidential poll is being challenged. Clark stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja ahead of […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Tinubu has ordered the suspension of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, from office with immediate effect. Director of Information, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Willie Bassey disclosed this in a statement on Friday night. The statement reads: “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has suspended […]
Continue ReadingChairman of PDP in FCT, Mohammed Babaji Madaki, witness of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has testified that both the party’s candidate and President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are not qualified to be declared as president for not scoring 25 percent in the Federal Capital Territory […]
Continue ReadingEvery government transition begins with a week of gràgrà where the new helmsman tries to assert their power by making definitive executive decisions. The week of gràgrà is when new leaders dis-anchor from the old. This phase, where the cliches of a “new beginning” are still being belted out, is where the newly enthroned must make a show of […]
Continue ReadingIn a show of desperation (some would say cowardice) at the polling station in Daura on 25th February, former President Muhammadu Buhari displayed his ballot paper after exercising his franchise. The unusual gesture – which goes against the spirit of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) guidelines – was a not-so-subtle signal to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu that he (Buhari) had kept his side of the bargain. […]
Continue ReadingSome labour leaders say there is a need for all stakeholders in the sector, including the government, to analyse the issue of fuel subsidy removal mentioned by the new President, Mr Bola Tinubu, in his inaugural speech. Tinubu, on taking office on Monday, said that the budget in place before his coming on board made […]
Continue ReadingForget their pretensions and volte-faces, when outgoing Nigerian public officials wake up tomorrow, 29 May, they will wake up into emptiness. That void cannot be filled by the wealth they have acquired in office. Nor can it be eliminated by Muhammadu Buhari’s reported haste to flee Aso Villa tomorrow. At the launch of a book […]
Continue ReadingExtra cleaning took place as the podium where Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima were scheduled to take oath of office as President and Vice President of Nigeria, was hit by heavy rain. It was reported earlier that a heavy downpour was witnessed at the Eagle Square where the inauguration of Bola Tinubu as 16th President […]
Continue ReadingNigerian singer, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, has said that he did not perform at the Tinubu inauguration concert held on Thursday, May 25, in Abuja because the organizers of the event wanted to offer him N5 million instead of N10m for his performance. According to the artist, he was told that N10 million […]
Continue ReadingNigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday May 25, conferred the titles of Grand Commander of the Federal Republic (GCFR) and Grand Commander of the Order of Niger (GCON) honors on the president-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his VP-elect, Kashim Shettima in Abuja. The GCFR is the highest honour to be conferred on anyone in Nigeria. […]
Continue ReadingAfter failing to stop him from emerging as APC’s flag bearer in 2022 and mounting steep hurdles for him in the 2023 election, Muhammadu Buhari increasingly comes across as intentionally charting courses of action designed to provoke pre-inauguration confrontation with Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Or am I missing something? Take, for example, Buhari’s request to the National […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), sitting in Abuja, has disclosed plans to merge the three separate petitions seeking to nullify the outcome of the 2023 presidential election by virtue of paragraph 50 of the First Schedule of the Electoral Act to merge all the petitions and decide them together. This view was supported by […]
Continue ReadingBola Tinubu, Nigeria’s President-elect has on Monday, in Paris, capital of France, met with Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, one of his opponents in the February 25, 2023 elections. The former Kano State governor’s wife, Hajia Salamatu and Abdulmimin Jibrin, an NNPP lawmaker-elect, accompanied him to the meeting, Tinubu’s wife, Sen Oluremi Tinubu and Femi Gbajabiamila, outgoing […]
Continue ReadingFormer deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, has confirmed that a peace meeting did hold between him and some elders together with community leaders in Lagos State The peace parley was brokered by retired Justice Isola Olorunnimbe and had in attendance Prince Tajudeen Olusi, the leader of the Governance […]
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