Preselect Bola Tinubu has made two impressive sound-bites which tended to give the impression he would be a people-friendly leader. In his maiden speech on Democracy Day on June 12, 2023, he told Nigerians: “I share your pains” with regard to the harsh economic experience occasioned by the commencement of implementation of the petrol subsidy removal.
July 10, 2023
Lori ro We’re improving tax collection and not imposing new taxes - FG
The federal government has said that it has no intention of imposing new taxes on Nigerians. Zacchaeus Adedeji, special adviser to the President on revenue who spoke at a press briefing at the state house, said they are only improving the collection of taxes.
Lori Iro court orders Obasanjo, Yar’Adua, Jonathan, Buhari govt to account for $5bn Abacha loot
Justice Kolawole Omotosho of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the governments of former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari to give an account of the $5 billion Abacha loot so far recovered.
Oletike Names of ex-governors receiving pensions in the 10th Senate
About 13 former Governors still receive pension allowances while still serving as Senators in the 10th National Assembly.
Lori Iro Gbenga Daniel, writes state government, demands the suspension of his monthly Ex-gov, pension of N676k
Former Ogun state governor cum Senator, Gbenga Daniel, has written to the state government asking that his pension as a former governor of the state be stopped.
Isa Pantami’s Son Secretly Resumes At Nigerian Communications Commission As Former Minister Continues To Manipulate Board Vice-Chairman, Danbatta
A former Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, is still calling the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) shots after ensuring that his son was secretly employed and resumed at the NCC office just beside his residence, SaharaReporters has learnt.
July 05, 2023
Elections: 23 Crucial Recommendations Made By EU Observers
The European Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) to Nigeria on Tuesday the 27th of June, published its final report on the federal and state elections of 25 February and 18 March.
The myth of ‘suffer now, enjoy later’- Abimbola Adelakun
This time eight years ago, Nigerians still basking in the euphoria of having a martinet president began to ascribe all kinds of wonderful happenstances to his body language.
Why northerners don’t call Tinubu “Jagaban”- Farooq Kperogi
Southern Nigerians have asked me two trivial but persistent and important questions about Preselect Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Rising ethnic tension between Hausa and Fulani - Farooq Kperogi
When Dan Fodio decided to “reform” the Islam he met in Hausa land, he repudiated the Islam that the Hausa people had practiced. The cultural and ethnic melding of Northern Nigeria’s Hausa and the Fulani people is so deep, so labyrinthine, so time-honored, and so unexampled that a fictitious ethnic category called the “Hausa-Fulani” was invented by Nigeria’s southern press to describe the emergent ethnic alchemy it has produced.
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