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In a statement, President Bola Tinubu has appointed Major General Olufemi Oluyede as Nigeria’s Acting Chief of Army Staff (COAS). This was announced in a release on Wednesday by presidential spokesman, Mr. Bayo Onanuga. Mr. Onanuga explained that Oluyede would assume the acting role pending the return of Lt. General Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja, who is […]
Continue ReadingI fully anticipate that most Nigerians will figuratively call for my head after reading this headline. How could it be that a leader who has inflicted such profound and unrelenting hardship upon the populace, and who appears utterly disinclined to offer even the smallest relief, could ever be missed? (Tinubu’s wirepullers at the World Bank […]
Continue ReadingInternational Monetary Fund (IMF) has denied playing any role in the removal of fuel subsidy in Nigeria by the government of President Bola Tinubu. This development was made known at a press conference during the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings in Washington DC, United States. According to the IMF’s African Region Director, Abebe Selassie, […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Tinubu has sacked six Ministers in a significant cabinet reshuffle, including Barr. Uju-Ken Ohanenye, Lola Ade-John, Prof. Tahir Mamman, Abdullahi Muhammad Gwarzo, Dr. Jamila Bio Ibrahim, and Beta Edu, who had earlier been suspended from her role as the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction. Barr. Uju-Ken Ohanenye, served as the Minister […]
Continue ReadingRenowned economist, Prof Pat Utomi, has claimed that the nation is presently a failure, made worse by the lack of alternative thinking to turn things around. According to Utomi, the lack of alternative thinking was worsened by a total capture of the legislature and the judiciary, as he described the present National Assembly as the […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Tinubu has returned to Abuja, Nigeria, from the United Kingdom (UK) and France after a two-week vacation. He arrived at the presidential wing of the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport (NAIA) in Abuja, Nigeria on Saturday. To receive him were his Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila; the National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu; the […]
Continue Reading“Bros, na wah for you oh. How person go dey call you, you no go pick call?” “A beg. My head no straight these days.” “Are you okay? You sick?” “I sick. I sick well, well, well.” What is the matter? And your wife could not call family? These women! What is going on?” “I […]
Continue ReadingThe torment of incessantly escalating petrol prices and the consequent surge in the cost of everything have plunged Nigerians into a precipitous decline in quality of life. This dire situation is exacerbated by insensitive, almost mocking remarks from those responsible for inflicting this pain. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, aptly nicknamed “T-Pain,” recently stated from London […]
Continue ReadingPresident Bola Ahmed Tinubu is scheduled to depart Abuja on Wednesday for London, the United Kingdom, for a period of two weeks. Sources close to the President revealed that Tinubu was taking the two-week break “as part of his annual leave.” A statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, as I address you today, I am deeply aware of the struggles many of you face in these challenging times. Our administration knows that many of you struggle with rising living costs and the search for meaningful employment. I want to assure you that your voices are heard. As your President, I assure […]
Continue ReadingOne by one, three former Nigerian military rulers, Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida and Abdulsalami Abubakar, arrived at Babangida’s Hilltop Mansion in Minna, Niger State, last Sunday. So did former National Security Adviser (NSA), General Aliyu Gusau. The Minna meeting had every trapping of African witches assembling at the coven. Like owls, a pervasive symbol of […]
Continue ReadingAs the news unfolded about the Dangote Refinery and the counter-currents, I was stupefied. Specifically, I never knew that Nigeria’s oil policy would ever come to this sorry pass. Mind you, I am not innocent as far as oil and Nigeria are concerned. But I never thought for one moment that my country’s oil would […]
Continue ReadingThe return of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu from what looked like a long trip abroad must come to many as a relief. When the President travelled on August 29, his destination was announced in very clear terms. He was heading to China to attend the Forum for China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in his capacity as Nigeria’s […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement issued on Saturday, Ajuri Ngelale, the Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Media and Publicity, has resigned from his position with immediate effect. The statement further said he has also stepped down as the Special Presidential Envoy on Climate Action and Chairman of the Presidential Steering Committee on Project Evergreen. Ngelale […]
Continue Reading“Hello, Bros. Hello. Hello. Hello” “Yes. I can hear you” “Which kin thing be this now? I don dey call you since, you no pick call. Person go dey call you, you no go pick.” “At your level, you should know that if you call somebody once or twice and the phone rings, the best […]
Continue ReadingNigeria Police Force (NPF), on Monday, declared a British national, Wynne Andrew Martin, also known as Andrew Povich, and a Nigerian, Lucky Ehis Obiyan, wanted for allegedly plotting to overthrow the democratically elected government in the country. The police accused the British national of building a network of sleeper cells to topple the democratic government […]
Continue ReadingTo say that the administration of President Bola Tinubu is enmeshed in a crisis of credibility is to put the situation mildly. For a man who got to office with a statistically narrow mandate of 37 percent of total votes cast, many expected Tinubu to rise above himself in order to establish an enduring legacy. That expectation now appears misplaced. Even more worrisome is that despite being […]
Continue ReadingThe unfailingly abiding emotional investment I have in the wellbeing of common people springs forth from my experiential and mediated identification with the twinge of hunger and misery that poverty breeds. As people who read my columns know, my father, who died on December 31, 2016, was an Arabic/Islamic Studies teacher at a government-owned primary […]
Continue ReadingAn X (Twitter) user has ranted after another X user, Mafejopami @VillageParrot, revealed that Koye Kekere-Ekun, an actor and son of Nigeria’s newly appointed Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, was a vocal supporter of Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate. The X (Twitter) user, Taofeek T. Gawat, sarcastically congratulated […]
Continue ReadingLabour Party’s (LP’s) presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has asked President Bola Tinubu’s administration to come clean on the details of the newly acquired presidential jet and the old ones being sold off. Obi made the call in a post shared on his X handle on Tuesday night, August 20. Obi said: […]
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