Whose President is Tinubu, Anyway?, By Chidi Amuta

Midway into a rather routine and very tepid presidency, President Bola Tinubu is caught in strange identity crisis. Politicians from across the nation are asking the president to define whose leader he really is. The general public is equally embarrassed by what many see as an “anyhow “ government: no focus, no commitment, no clarity […]

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Looking Like Tinubu vs Atiku vs Obi Again, By Simon Kolawole

The pace and energy with which President Bola Tinubu’s foot soldiers sped to Kaduna last week to defend his stewardship at an engagement organised by the Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation (SABMF) should confirm an obvious thing: that the president knows the importance of getting northern support again in his bid for a second term […]

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Tinubu grants Customs CG a tenure extension

An extension of the tenure of the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Bashir Adewale Adeniyi has been granted by President Bola Tinubu. Adeniyi, whose tenure was initially set to expire on August 31, 2025, will now remain in office until August 2026. A statement signed by the President’s Special Adviser on Information and […]

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Tinubu: Too Supercilious, Often Superficial and Too Selfish, By Ugoji Egbujo

Tinubu’s government has become a propaganda factory.  A government obsessed with spectacle over substance and relentlessly pursuing self-congratulation. A governance style that prioritises the trivial over the transformative. Tinubu’s government is devoted to celebrating small, often inconsequential achievements while the nation is racked by hunger, insecurity, and economic stagnation.  From commissioning incomplete roads to extracting political capital […]

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Tinubu using misleading statistics to conceal economic hardship ―Peter Obi

Labour Party’s presidential flagbearer in the 2023 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has criticised President Bola Tinubu for allegedly presenting inaccurate statistics to obscure the country’s worsening economic situation. In a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday, Obi said Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate during the last election, once ridiculed his emphasis on […]

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Tinubu gives Super Falcons national honours, $100,000 each, homes, et al

President Bola Tinubu has rewarded the Super Falcons with national honours, cash prizes, and homes following their historic win at the 2024 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) in Morocco. In a ceremony at the State House in Abuja on Monday, Tinubu conferred the title of Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON) on […]

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PRESIDENCY 2027: If not Tinubu who else?, By Dele Sobowale

“You can’t beat something with nothing” – American baseball team coach after his team lost 17 games in a row. Since governance has been suspended for active politicking in Nigeria until May 2027, we might as well stop deceiving ourselves and squarely face the issue of selection of our President from 2027 to 2031. In […]

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I see a potential coup attempt to oust Tinubu if… ―Primate Ayodele

Leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church (IESC), Primate Elijah Ayodele, has warned President Bola Ahmed Tinubu that if he wins a second term in office, “there will be coup that will attempt to take him out of power”. This was revealed at the launch of his annual prophecy book titled: “Warnings to the Nations (2025/2026)” […]

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How to stop Tinubu in 2027 ―Rotimi Amaechi

Former Nigerian Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has said that the only way to stop President Bola Tinubu from returning to power in 2027 is for citizens to take their fate into their own hands. According to him, Nigerians cannot achieve meaningful change through wishful thinking. The former Rivers State governor, spoke on Thursday at […]

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Tinubu’s Chicago certificate as Afó’kéèmù, By Festus Adedayo

Last Monday, as noiselessly as a phantom, President Bola Tinubu brought home his strange friend. While an Igbo proverb says the footsteps of a man cannot create a stampede, Alexander Zingman, the president’s Belarusian friend’s sloppy footsteps created more than a stampede. It was as though the great South African poet, Mazisi Kunene’s lines were […]

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Obi lambastes Tinubu over his vacation to St Lucia

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has criticised President Bola Tinubu over his visit to Saint Lucia, describing it as ill-timed and insensitive to the current hardship and insecurity ravaging the country. Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser on Information and Strategy to Tinubu, said on Friday that the President […]

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Does the Tinubu voter regret add up to anything?, By Abimbola Adelakun

As economic hardship bites and the state fails to curtail the problem of insecurity, people rue their decision to vote for Bola Tinubu as president in 2023. This angst seems to be coming from every corner of the country; people frequently denounce this administration’s failure to provide relief from the years of deprivation. From the […]

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Fubara, Wike, Rivers lawmakers meet Tinubu in Abuja (Photos)

President Bola Tinubu on Thursday held a closed-door meeting with key political actors from Rivers State in a move to resolve the prolonged crisis rocking the state. The meeting, held at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, brought together the suspended Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, Speaker […]

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ALGON denies supporting Wamakko as Tinubu’s 2027 running mate

In a statement issued in Sokoto on Sunday, the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), Sokoto State chapter, has distanced itself from a recent call made by one of its members advocating for Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko’s nomination as the vice-presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the 2027 general elections. The State […]

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Tinubu visits survivors of Benue State attacks in hospital (Photos)

President Bola Tinubu has visited persons recovering from last Friday’s attack by armed herders on Yelewata, in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State. Tinubu was received by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume, and the host Governor, Hyacinth Alia. The major hosts were joined by the Senate Minority Leader, […]

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Tinubu And The Spirit Of June 12, By Reuben Abati

Candidly, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has done very well with June 12 by taking the narrative from where President Muhammadu Buahri left off, and choosing to give that date, the history and the symbolism of it, form, style and substance. President Buhari, despite the somnambulism of his administration, it would be recalled, suddenly woke up […]

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Tinubu’s 2025 Democracy Day address (Full speech)

On Thursday, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu delivered a national address to a joint session of Nigerian National Assembly to mark Democracy Day of the year 2025 in Nigeria. In the speech, the President reflected on Nigeria’s democratic journey and paid tribute to heroes of June 12. See the full speech below: ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT BOLA […]

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Tinubu confers national honours on Alfred Rewane, Shehu Yar’Adua, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Kudirat Abiola, Soyinka, others (Full list)

During his State of the Nation address at the national assembly, president Bola Tinubu on Thursday announced national honours for dozens of Nigerians as part of events marking democracy day. Among the notable honorees are the late Kudirat Abiola, who received a posthumous Commander of the Federal Republic title, and Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka, […]

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Sin No More, Sanwo-Olu, By Reuben Abati

Nigerians woke up to the delightful news, Monday morning, that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, currently on Sallah vacation in Lagos, had decided, following entreaties from interested and concerned parties, to forgive his political godson, with whom there had been a frosty relationship for months. The political godson is Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the sitting Governor of […]

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