Last weekend, Governor Makinde and his party, the People’s Democratic Party, PDP lost out to the APC and Its candidate for the Saki West state constituency. I have read a lot of reasoning regarding the event of last Saturday and how some are of the opinion that though, the APC won in the overall, It lost the ballot, marginally during the rerun. That may be so, but with due respect to those who are of such opinion, to me, while there might be need for the Oyo APC to keep working on putting Its house in order, last Saturday was…
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“Baba Gba Ope Wa”: The Trend In Town That Must Worry PBAT And The APC. There is a young skit maker who have been trending for some time now. The young man is known for making prayer points from odd situations. Naturally, Nigerians have since gotten used to giving thanks in all manner of situations, good or bad. If someone lost a relation or loved one, even when such loved ones are considered too young to pass away, it has become traditional for us to console the bereaved by bringing up comparison between untimely deaths and perhaps, madness. ” E…
The porcupine is a large rodent that is clothed with a thick coat of sharp quills, spines. The spines protect it from rampaging predators. When it feels threatened, the porcupine shoots the arrows of its spines at its assailants. These deadly quills pierce the intending attacker, allowing the animal to escape harm. So, in their confidence about the mystical powers at the beck and call of their kings, Yoruba say that when hunters talk about pursuing, capturing and gripping an animal to death with bare hands, that animal can never be a porcupine. Most likely premising their conviction on history…
This evening, the APC in Saki West local Government went through the eye of the needle to snatch an emphatic win against the ruling PDP in a keenly contested rerun election into the Saki West state constituency. I deliberately used the word snatch, considering the scenarios in the build up to the rerun election conducted in some polling units within the Saki West Local Government. The APC candidate had been returned elected by INEC in March, 2023. The PDP and Its candidate however, disatisfied with the return of the APC candidate by INEC had approached the Election petition Tribunals to…
The Nigerian government through the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has raised the exchange rate for cargo clearance from N952/$ to N1.356 per dollar. This adjustment follows recent increases in the exchange rate for cargo clearance, reflecting a continuing trend of fluctuations in the country’s foreign exchange policies. The exchange rate for cargo clearance was initially raised from N757 per dollar to N783 per dollar in November, representing a 3.4% increase. Subsequently, it was further increased to N952 per dollar in December. According to information obtained from the Customs official website on Friday, the exchange rate for cargo clearing was…
Nigeria has moved up five places in the latest 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index ranking released on Tuesday by Transparency International. The country also moved up one point at 25 out of 100 than the previous year, and placed 145th out of 180 nations and territories worldwide based on perceived levels of public sector corruption. The report was disclosed on the official Transparency International website. Nigeria ranked 150th out of 180 countries in 2022, moving up four spots from its 2021 ranking of 154th, and it maintained its previous score of 24 out of 100 points in corresponding years. In 2020,…
Northern Nigeria used to have a cult of power called the Kaduna Mafia. The Kaduna Mafia decided who would become the Nigerian president, which road to build, which to abandon, which industries to be cited and where. When it couldn’t help but hand the reins of power to the south, it determined which weakest link to exploit. The 1976 assassination of Murtala Muhammed and the handing over of power to Olusegun Obasanjo explains this. If the Kaduna Mafia was bothered about the north-centric disposition of Obasanjo, it could have defiantly handed over the reins of the military government to Shehu…
It is an open secret that Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, then, as President elect supported Seyi Makinde of the PDP against Teslim Kolawole Folarin of the APC for the March, 2023 gubernatorial election. The president elect then must be having in mind permutations towards 2027. Apart from the fact that he had a kind of arrangements with the Group of five or should I say two dissident Governors of the PDP led by the then outgoing Governor of Rivers state and present Minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike, having the likes of Wike and Makinde on the plate towards 2027…
Aftermath the explosion that rocked Ibadan about seven days ago, Bodija Estate Residents Association (BERA) met today, to assess efforts made since the explosion incident. Speaking with newsmen on the assessment of government intervention so far, the Chairman of Bodija Estate Residents Association (BERA), Mr Muyiwa Bamgbose stated that the intervention was not properly organised. Explaining further why many of the residents also hold a similar view, Bamgbose said that there were a lot of people who still paid for their medicals and had to treat themselves. According to him, it would be difficult for someone like him to just…
Nigeria, struggling to raise funding for its 2024 budget may borrow to finance electricity subsidy as the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Company (NERC) yesterday released a new tariff template, showing over N1.6 trillion shortfall. There are also indications that the liquidity crisis rocking the power sector in Nigeria may go from bad to worse over the development, which may undermine loan repayment to the apex and commercial banks in the country. Across the eleven distribution companies, the administration of President Bola Tinubu in what can be described as a reversal of the Service Based Tariff (SBT), which was initially used under…