The country is hard. Everywhere you turn you can feel it. The two economic decisions taken by the president, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, after he was inaugurated two years ago, have made things difficult. The removal of petroleum subsidy, which we all agreed was a huge scam, and the eradication of the dual exchange rate,…
The proposed Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) convention is being threatened by a deep-seated rift among its leaders. It is over the zoning of party offices and the 2027 presidential ticket, it was learnt yesterday. The November 15 and 16 elective convention is scheduled for Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. A 110-member National Convention Committee headed by…
The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Musa, has linked the recent surge in killings across the country to the build-up to the 2027 general election. The country has in recent times witnessed renewed terror attacks in the North-East and attacks by the bandits in the North-West. Benue and Plateau states continue to be epicentres…
President Bola Tinubu on Friday urged Nigerians to try a newly launched Personal Income Tax calculator that estimates how much would be paid under the tax reforms his administration recently signed into law. In a post on his official X account, the President said the calculator allows citizens to compare their estimated tax under the…
Ahead of the August 30 local government election in Rivers state, loyalists of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Chief Nyesom Wike, have been nominated as the chairmanship candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the Chief Tony Okocha-led leadership of the party. From the list of candidates posted by the Rivers State Independent Electoral…
The Kano State Government has announced plans to grant amnesty to repentant thugs under its ‘safe corridor’ initiative designed to tackle political thuggery and youth restiveness in the state. The state Commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs, Ibrahim Abdullahi-Waiya, disclosed this on Wednesday at the state police command headquarters during the inauguration of the programme….
In view of the hardship in the country, some stakeholders have asked the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, to shelve its plans to review the salaries of political office-holders in Nigeria. RMAFC Chairman, Mohammed Shehu, had on Monday, reportedly hinted at the plan and described the current earnings of the President and other…
There are strong indications that the November national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party scheduled for Ibadan, Oyo State, may be derailed following a threat by the Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nyesom Wike, to halt the event. Wike’s opposition to the convention is believed to be the result of his rift with his erstwhile ally,…
During your 2023 election campaign, ethnicity was highlighted as a major issue, and we are now beginning to see a repeat of this in the countdown to 2027… The main issue here is that a lot of people are being played, and some people are taking advantage of their lack of understanding of what is…
Former Kaduna Central senator, Shehu Sani, and ex-presidential aspirant on the platform of African Democratic Party, ADP, Mathias Tsado, disagreed yesterday over whether or not former President Goodluck Jonathan should contest the 2027 elections. While Sani advised the former president not to yield to pressures to contest the election, warning that such a move could…
