Author and Political activist, Dele Farotimi has opined that everything worked during the February 25 presidential elections except the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Playwright, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has taken a swipe at the Emir of Ilorin, Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, for his role in preventing an Osun priestess, Yeye Ajesikemi Omolara, from holding an Isese festival in the state.
For decades, the elite has held Nigeria down and sabotaged every reform effort. It is to their credit that the poor in the country are going through the worst moment of their lives. Among the downtrodden, things have fallen apart and it has become increasingly difficult for the poor to earn a living.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.