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…
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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…
The importance of Oyo State in National Politics dates back to the advent of Democracy and Party Politics. While Lagos was seat of power in the center during the first Republic, Ibadan, now capital of Oyo State was the seat of power of the Western Region. It is safe to say that Oyo had been home to highly cerebral and flamboyant politicians who have made great marks on the sand of history. When you consider the exploits of likes of Ladoke Akintola, Adegoke Adelabu, Adisa Akinloye, Richard Akinjide, Lamidi Adedibu and many others, Oyo State never lacked characters who have…
It’s interesting how the late former Governor Abiola Ajimobi kept scoring goals against Governor Makinde from all angles. If issues of policy formulation were a football game between the duo, I bet the late Ajimobi must have outscored Makinde by dozens margin. Governor Makinde’s cosmetics approach to governance are beginning to give way under his second term tagged Omi Tuntun 2.0. Most of the laudable policies of late Governor Ajimobi were reversed by Makinde during his first term. The School Governing Board system which Ajimobi came up established to interface between the parents, Alumni associations and the school authorities with…
Former governor of Oyo State and Otun Olubadan of Ibadan land, Sen. Rashidi Ladoja, has dragged the state governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde; Olubadan of Ibadan land, Oba Lekan Balogun, Alli Okunmade II, and 10 members of the Olubadan-in-Council, who were recently elevated to Obas to court over the chieftaincy review. An online medium, 9jaSpectators, disclosed this on Wednesday. Oba Balogun had last Friday crowned the high chiefs as Obas, following the review of the state’s chieftaincy law by Makinde. However, Ladoja, who had kicked against the crowning of the high chiefs as obas, shunned the ceremony. Recall that Ladoja also…
Unarguably, Local Government Administration In Oyo State is in a state of comatose. Since the inception of Governor Makinde’s administration in 2019, his disdain for freedom of the third tier of Government is visible even to the blind. There are empirical evidence to conclude that local government administration have never been so stifled as it is now. Infrastructures in the local governments across Oyo State has totally collapsed due to paltry release of local government monthly allocation by the Governor. There is no doubt that the relationship between the Governor and the local government chairmen is like that of a…