Despite criticisms over President Bola Tinubu’s appointment of as many as 45 ministers, All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain Aliyu Audu says the number is not enough. “I don’t think 45 is even enough. I don’t think 48 is enough. We have a population of over 200 million. We are in crisis,” Audu, a member of the Media Strategy Subcommittee, APC Presidential Transition Council, said on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily Wednesday. Asked to give his preferred figure, he answered, “I’m not putting any number to it.” Buttressing his point, the APC member argued that Tinubu, as Lagos State governor between 1999…
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Former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, on Sunday, posted a cryptic message on social media weeks after his ministerial nomination was not confirmed by the Senate.
I listened to Aare Isiaka Olagunju on Fresh FM radio program this morning. As usual, the Oyo state Chairman of the State Independent Electoral Commission, (OYSIEC) spoke to his commitment to organize a free and fair Local Government Election next year. In his characteristics manner, he told the story of how he got Governor Seyi Makinde’s promise and commitment that he was not going to take the job except he was assured of non interference from the Governor. A commitment he claimed he got. He talked about the success of the 2021 local government election which he conducted. Great and…
When death became ubiquitous and cheap as air, afflicting the young and the old in their scores, Yoruba of old said it had become three-for-a-penny. There was what they called iyo olo’kan (one-penny salt). Ookan was a penny and the least of the denominations of the money of the time. A mound of salt was sold for a penny. Death that harvested people in their prime, unannounced, they also likened to creepy, parasitic mistletoe – afomo. It is a leathery-leaved parasitic plant which grows on apple, oak, and other broadleaf trees in the forest and also sticks to trees, either…
President Bola Tinubu has appointed former Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and Festus Keyamo, Aviation Minister. Ajuri Ngelale, Presidential spokesman, confirmed the portfolios at Aso Rock on Wednesday. Below are the ministers and portfolios Northwest Minister of Art, Culture and the Creative Economy – Hannatu Musawa Minister of Defence – Muhammad Badaru Minister of State Defence – Bello Matawalle Minister of State Education – Yusuf T. Sunumu Minister of Housing and Urban Development – Ahmed Dangiwa Minister of State, Housing and Urban Development – Abdullahi Gwarzo Minister of Budget and Economic Planning…
Two leading opposition figures in the country, former Vice president Atiku Abubakar and a former Governor of Kano State, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, recently held a meeting in Abuja. The meeting took place at the residence of the former Governor and leader of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) late Tuesday. Kwankwaso confirmed the meeting on his Facebook page, saying that “I was pleased to receive my brother, the former Vice President, His Excellency, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, at my residence this evening. I thank Waziri for this fraternal visit. – RMK.” Though details of the meeting are yet to be known…
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. …
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…