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Former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has explained that the fuel subsidy removed in June 2023 by President Bola Tinubu’s administration has returned to the economy due to inflation. Obasanjo stated this in a recent interview with the Financial Times. He faulted how Tinubu’s administration removed fuel subsidies. According to him, the government should…
As the ongoing nationwide protests against bad governance in the country rages, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adamu Garba, on Friday, said the North has been deceived into destroying its commonwealth. Garba said northern influencers pushing for the protest should realize that they have been used to destroy their commonwealth. “The North…
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Former Special Adviser to ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo, Doyin Okupe, has said the Supreme Court ruling on local government autonomy on Thursday was wrong.Doyin Okupe said the local governments are not federating units of Nigeria. He said the ruling was an aberration and would create political confusion. Okupe on Thursday said local governments belonged to the…
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Says ‘if they don’t repent, Tinubu’ll attend their funeral’ A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Jesutega Onokpasa, has revealed that certain appointees of President Bola Tinubu are plotting to succeed him before the end of his tenure and are seriously wishing that the President will not make it to 2027 for their selfish reasons….
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THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) aroused the rage of Nigerians this week when it revealed in its periodic newsletter called “EFCC Alert” (which it shared with news organizations on Monday) that it had recovered up to 30 billion naira of the money allegedly stolen by suspended Humanitarian and Poverty Alleviation minister Betta Edu….
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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is so inordinately inebriated by his IMF-motivated decision to remove subsidies on petrol that at every opportunity he has he brags about it in giddily superlative terms. For example, during a meeting with the Nigerian community in France on June 24, 2023, he couched his decision to impose the Tinubu fuel…
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Elder statesman and leader of the Ijaw Nation, Edwin Clark has condemned the recent killing of soldiers in Delta State, stressing that Nigeria has never witnessed such a tragedy before. According to Clark, the incident was shocking, barbaric, and wicked. He also advised that the communities and the military should work together to find the…
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In the spirit of Ramadan, I am republishing a revised version of an article I wrote in June 2017 in my defunct “Politics of Grammar” column about pig-based meats and foods that Muslims are forbidden from eating but which many of them who visit the West unwittingly eat on occasion because of their poly-appellativeness (my…
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The searing torment that everyday folks are going through in Nigeria right now is so dire, so unbearably extreme, and so unexampled in its rawness that even diasporan Nigerians like me who live tens of thousands of miles away from home can feel it not just vicariously but also experientially. The unending streams of requests…
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Allegations of widespread profligacy in the administration of Governor Abdulrazaq Abdulrahman have gained momentum with an open letter penned by a prominent member of his party, Hon Mashood Mustapha, who now prides himself on leading the “revolution and struggle for the emancipation of Kwara state between 2018 and the election of 2019”, on the renovation…