Forty-eight hours to the public presentation of the composition of the various standing committees of the National Assembly, there is discontent at the way the exercise has been handled in the two chambers of the federal legislature. LEADERSHIP gathered that lawmakers in both chambers trembled with anger, especially at the weekend. A majority of the lawmakers are nursing the hurt of being unfairly treated by the handlers of the exercise in the Presidency. The names of the federal lawmakers allocated to the various committees in the Senate and House of Representatives are expected to be made public during plenary on…
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Given today’s state of the nation, it is likely that both Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Mr Peter Obi are thanking their stars that they were not the ones declared as our elected president on March 1, 2023. If they were, each of them would have done what Bola Tinubu did with petrol subsidy with consequences beyond their capacity. They would have done it – they all promised to do it. But, if it was Obi in particular who withdrew fuel subsidy, the North and the West would have exploded in flames of protests. His ethnic base would have defended him…
Initial applauses from Bretton Woods and some local economists that greeted the economic reforms of the Bola Tinubu presidency were deafening. The reforms were termed bold and courageous. The most surgically painful of them, which drilled deep down into the marrows of Nigerians, was the removal of fuel subsidy. In a country that is almost totally dependent on PMS, the unbearable pains of the people reached ear-shattering decibel. Cars disappeared from the roads. Costs of transportation are tearing the roof, with rife social dislocations. Rates of crime have since been on the increase, with rising matrimonial disorder figures. Local political…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) describes the extortionate N617 per liter price of fuel endorsed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) maladministration as a provocative exhibition of extreme insensitivity and callousness towards Nigerians. The Party cautions that the increase is worsening the already suffocating economic situation under the APC and has the capability of triggering very serious crisis in the country if not abated. It is appalling that instead of seeking ways to stabilize and grow the economy, the APC administration has abandoned the welfare of Nigerians which is the primary purpose of Government under Section 14 (2)(b) of the…
After 50 days in office, President Bola Tinubu has sent the list of his ministerial nominees to the Senate, and to be read out today by the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio. The Guardian gathered that the Clerk of the National Assembly, Magaji Tambuwal, received the letter containing the list yesterday. As mandated by law, the President is obligated to submit the list of ministerial nominees within 60 days of assuming office. After Tinubu’s inauguration on May 29, he has until July 26 to fulfill this requirement. According to insider sources at the Presidency, the ministerial list had been…
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Sunday night reportedly stormed the home of the embattled National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adamu Abdullahi, to execute a search warrant. The EFCC agents reportedly arrived around 8:00 p.m. at Adamu’s house on Ali Akilu Crescent, by Aso Rock Presidential Villa, and immediately met resistance from police orderlies attached to the politician. The EFCC operatives reportedly came in four trucks. It was gathered that, the police officers said no one could enter the house because it was already past 6:00 p.m. and already late for any search…
Barring any last-minute change, a son (name withheld) of a former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), may soon be named the country’s Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, the Nigerian Tribune has reliably learnt. This is coming on the heels of indications that some loyalists of President Bola Tinubu’s have expressed concern over the planned inclusion of some immediate past state governors on the ministerial list. They were said to have described the possibility as full of “bad optics.” According to Nigerian Tribune, sources close to the working of the administration told the Nigerian Tribune that some…
A little over a week ago, Professor Wole Soyinka turned the attention of Nigerians from their current harrowing economic existence to one of the tyrannies that religion inflicts on them. Prof was apparently in his elements. For decades, he had fought battles of willful violations of human existence in various guises. Young Yakubu Gowon was one of the experiments Soyinka conducted on his intolerance for governmental tyranny. Gowon’s government had detained the comparative literature professor for two years in the wake of the civil war on allegation of hobnobbing with bearded Odumegwu Ojukwu who had just declared a civil war.…
In the last few days since Nigeria’s new government announced an N8,000 palliative for 12 million poor Nigerian families, you would think that, all of a sudden, Nigerians had gone back in time to the Ayi Kwei Armah’s Ghanaian years. Or that the scales had just suddenly fallen off the people’s eyes. Criticisms, snide commentaries and comparative placements of this government, side by side the Muhammadu Buhari government’s similar policy failure, are pelted on Aso Rock Villa. Has the matrimony of barely eight weeks begun to manifest traces of rupture? The matrimony of pre-independence Ghana with Kwame Nkrumah witnessed a…
Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf has criticized the federal government’s allocation of N500 billion through the Bank of Industry to support small-scale industries across the country’s geopolitical zones. Governor Yusuf, who was represented by his Deputy Comr. Aminu Abdussalam Gwarzo during a meeting with representatives from the Kano Cooperative Society at the state government house revealed that the distribution was heavily skewed, with Lagos State receiving 47% of the allocation, followed by the South-South Zone with 17%, and other regions receiving significantly lower percentages. In a statement issued at the end of the meeting, the governor described the distribution…