President Bola Tinubu has reneged on one of the legal and moral demands on public office holders to declare their assets upon the assumption of office, for transparency purposes. More than six months after assumption of office, taking oath of office and swearing allegiance to State and the rule of law, President Tinubu has no […]
•Ugorji and Tinubu The President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), Most Rev Luicius Ugorji, has decried Nigeria’s endless borrowing of humongous sums of money to fund personal lifestyles of public office holders, describing it as anachronistic, unconscionable, wasteful and anti-people. Ugorji, Archbishop of Owerri Metropoli...
•ECOWAS meeting West African leaders meet today for talks with the region in deepening crisis, after four countries fell under military rule and with risks growing from Sahel jihadist conflicts. After coups in Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea and Niger since 2020, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) bloc also saw member states Sie...
•A child injured by the bombing Last Sunday, December 3, Nigerians were astonished to hear the sad news of the bombing and killing of innocent villagers by the military at Tudun Biri village, in Kaduna State. The villagers in their hundreds were said to have gathered to celebrate the birthday of Prophet Muhammad, when the […]
Sixteen days to this year’s Christmas, many Nigerians have said they do not have plans to travel out of their locations to mark the season as a result of insecurity, high cost of transportation and the general economic hardship in the country. They blame the situation on the removal of fuel subsidy and weakening of […]
•Food market Many families risk celebrating the approaching Christmas and New Year in hardship due to the hike in the prices of goods and services, and are devising life-changing ways to cut costs. Several families told our correspondents that life had become tougher for them as a result of the economic hardship in the country […]
Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals plant says it has received its first one million barrels of Agbami Crude grade from Shell International Trading and Shipping Company Limited, STASCO. In a statement today, December 8, Dangote Refinery said the STASCO cargo contained one million barrels from Agbami and sailed to Dangote Refinery’s S...
•NAF jet Some angry officers of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) have expressed their frustration over the airstrikes on Tundun Biri in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State carried out by the Nigerian Army. Over 120 lives were reported dead and more than 60 injured after the army drone bombed villagers celebrating Maulud on […]
•Uba Sani Kaduna State governor, Uba Sani, has faulted the Army’s statement attributing the reason for the air strike in the Tudun Birni community to terrorists embedding themselves with civilians. The incident, which happened on Sunday, resulted in the deaths of over 120 people and injuries to several others in the Igabi Local Government Area...
An elder statesman and a former Minister of Finance, Chief Olu Falae, says Nigeria’s president does not have to be the minister of petroleum, adding that it is important to appoint a minister to oversee the ministry. His position is in support of former central bank governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, who earlier said that the […]

