Aremo Olusegun Osoba is a chieftain and one of the leaders of Nigeria’s ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). He is a journalist par excellence and a former Governor of Ogun State who served meritoriously with landmark achievements in the areas of education, roads rehabilitation and reconstruction, rural electrification, infrastructural development among others. Without any iota of doubt, Osoba left an indelible mark on the political stage of Ogun State. With his deep interest in the affairs of the country, he was instrumental in seizing federal power from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in 2015. …
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Inflation rate in Nigeria surged to 24.08 percent in July 2023, showing a 129 basis-point increase when compared to 22.79 percent recorded in the previous month. This is contained in the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) Consumer Price Index (CPI) report for July 2023 released on Tuesday. The rise in inflation rate for July represents the sixth consecutive increase in the headline index this year, and the significant jump is attributed to the complete removal of petrol subsidies and the unification of the official exchange rate. According to the NBS, on a month-on-month basis, the headline inflation rate stood at…
Contrary to insinuations in some quarters, President Bola Tinubu actually promised the immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, not just a ministerial slot but the portfolio of the new Federal Ministry of Energy. Following the cast iron assurance by Tinubu, el-Rufai thereafter mobilized his team and produced a blueprint that got Tinubu excited ahead of his nomination. “Specifically, the president-elect promised el-Rufai, in no uncertain terms, the new ministry of energy. “Thereafter, el-Rufai mobilised his team and produced a blueprint that wowed Tinubu, about three weeks before his ministerial nomination,’’ according to the former governor’s media aide, Ibraheem…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been in office for less than a hundred days. His first few days in office was characterized by a flurry of quick but precise policy statements and actions which suggested that the president came in well prepared to hit the ground running. Those first few days, naturally so, reassured Nigerians and raised hopes that a new and better phase just begun. Alas! That hope no longer exist. It has evaporated. Worst still, that hope has given way to despair, anxiety and frustrations across all facets of our societies. What could have possibly gone wrong? A…
The immediate-past National Vice Chairman, Northwest, of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Salihu Moh. Lukman has raised the alarm over what he tagged “disturbing signals” under the nascent administration of President Bola Tinubu.
The Nigerian Presidential Election Petition Court has reserved its judgment. Apprehension and expectation are playing hide and seek in the air. Judgment Day is here. Theologians, writers and musicians have painted poignant colours of the judgment day. From the 1998-direct-to-video film of John Terlesky with that same title – Judgment Day – depicting disaster in the air as a giant meteor that would soon hit the earth, to the Italian Renaissance painter, Michelangelo’s fresco painting which he labeled The Last Judgment, judgment day has never been a tea party. Rastafari-influenced Donald “Tabby” Shaw, Fitzroy “Bunny” Simpson and Lloyd “Judge” Ferguson…
I listened to Senator Ayoade Adeseun’s spurious and unwarranted attacks directed at individuals within the Oyo APC and the Party Itself. Who would blame Senator Adeseun. After all, the dead child has created an opportunity to copulate with Its mother. Nowadays, anti party activities brings compensation rather than condemnation. It is a very good time for Senator Adeseun and others in his shoes to publicly celebrate their inglorious acts of joining with the enemy to set fire in their own inheritance. I will not belabor myself by trying to defend or disprove whatever he said against individuals or the party.…
A new cabal, much more vicious, power hungry and corrupt has emerged in the Bola Tinubu Presidency. The Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, and the National Security Adviser, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, have formed a tag team, controlling the affairs of Government, shielding Tinubu away from happenings and forming a cabal that would sooner or later tear down the house of APC. At the back of their mind is 2027 elections. Gbajabiamila does not see Tinubu either completing his tenure or having the capacity to run again in 2027 due to his failing health. His strategy is now to clip the…
I have seen some documents online purportedly authored by some faceless lawyers on behalf of Babatunde Fashola, a former Lagos State Governor, a former Minister in which they are petitioning the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, the Inspector General of Police, IGP, and the Department of State Security, DSS, to investigate my tweets alleging that the former Lagos State Governor, a lackey of Bola Tinubu, is conniving with the Judges handling the Presidential Elections Petition Tribunal, PEPT, to write a favorable judgement for Tinubu. While I am not in any way moved by any petition, Fashola as a good Muslim that…
The love of God to humanity is vividly captured in the Book of John 3:16. “For God so loved the world so much that He gave His only begotten son……”. For Oyo state APC, president Bola Tinubu so hated It so much that he gave Its second Ministerial slot to Ogun state. That Ogun state has three slots in the Ministerial Nominations by president Tinubu to Oyo state’s one is no longer news. What may be news however is the undercurrent that gave Ogun state the Lion share. President Tinubu in his continuation of taunting the APC in Oyo state…