The Network for the Actualisation of Social Growth and Viable Development (NEFGAD), a public procurement advocacy group, has frowned at how properties of struggling Nigerians and thriving businesses were demolished in the ongoing construction of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway. Recall that the 700-kilometre coastal highway had been enmeshed in controversy following the demolition of Landmark…
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has declared that there is hunger in the country. Makinde noted that what is happening in the country does not reflect where the country and its people should be as a nation. He used the opportunity to appeal to leaders across the country to create a framework to harness…
Aloy Ejimakor, Lead Counsel of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Wednesday said Igbos are the big losers of democracy. Posting on X, the constitutional lawyer described democracy as a farce without tolerance for free speech. He wrote: “Democracy is a farce without tolerance for free speech & equality of…
As Nigerians mark the June 12 Democracy Day celebration, some aggrieved citizens on Wednesday protested against the current state of the country. The aggrieved Nigerians took to the streets to protest against the hunger and economic hardship. In Lagos State, some protesters who gathered in Ikeja said it’s time for President Bola Tinubu’s administration to…
President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday almost fell at the Eagles Square, venue of the 2024 Democracy Day celebration. Tinubu slipped while boarding the parade vehicle. He had approached the vehicle shortly after he arrived at the venue. When the President slipped, his security details and some aides immediately rushed to him and assisted him to…
President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, charged Nigerians to bear the excruciating pain occasioned by harsh economic policies of his government.According to Tinubu, the policies are necessary to put the nation on a sound economic position. The Publisher Nigeria reports that the President stated this in a national broadcast to mark the 25th anniversary of unbroken…
The 10th edition of the Lagos International Climate Change Summit commenced today at the Lagos Continental Hotel in Victoria Island, Lagos, under the theme “Accelerating Climate Finance and Championing Local Adaptation Initiatives.” The summit, which runs from June 11th to 13th, will be bringing together climate experts, policymakers, and stakeholders to discuss strategies for mobilizing…
The First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, has called for collective action by all for the eradication of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Nigeria by the year 2030. Mrs Tinubu made this call in Abuja on Tuesday at the 2024 Annual Global Technical Consultation of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and UNICEF joint programme on the elimination…
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has urged President Bola Tinubu to build a democracy that will reduce frictions after elections. Jonathan, who described the avalanche of litigation that follows elections in the country as embarrassing, also warned that democracy that is built on ethnicity and religion does not endure. The former President made this call while…
The former director of currency operations of the CBN Ahmed Umar has told the FCT high court sitting in Maitama that the former governor of the central bank Godwin Emefiele printed his design of the Naira. In his evidence in chief, he highlighted the features in the design approved by former president Muhammadu Buhari which…
