•Concerned Citizens for Change A civil society organisation, Concerned Citizens for Change, has criticised the reported implementation of a ban by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on the production, distribution and consumption of alcoholic drinks in sachets and small PET or glass bottles below 200ml, l...
•Atiku Abubakar Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has sharply criticised President Bola Tinubu’s administration over the economy, insecurity and governance, accusing it of incompetence, lawlessness and political intimidation. In a New Year message released today, Atiku said 2025 was one of the most “punishing” years in Nigeria’s recent hist...
•Pastor Ben Eragbai The General Overseer of Divine Appointment Ministry International, Pastor Ben Eragbai, has said insecurity remains a pervasive and critical challenge across Nigeria, posing a direct and imminent danger to citizens. Eragbai, who spoke during this year’s Praise Service at the church’s headquarters in Ajah, Lagos, noted ...
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu, today in Ibadan, Oyo State, said the economy has turned the corner for good, following the success of the economic reforms introduced by his administration over two years ago. He assured Nigerians that they would soon begin to enjoy the fruits of the reforms and thanked them for their patience and […]
•Tinubu and Wale Oke The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has called on the Tinubu-led federal government to take urgent action to stabilise the naira, warning that its persistent depreciation is worsening the living conditions of Nigerians. PFN National President, Bishop Francis Wale Oke, made the appeal in Lagos today during a press c...
•Foodstuff market Nigeria’s economy may have crawled out of the Intensive Care Unit, but citizens are still gasping under the weight of inflation, falling demand, and multiple taxes, the Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association, NECA, has warned. Reacting to the Director-General, (DG) of the World Trade Organisation WTO, is Ngozi Okonjo-Iwe...
•Sunny Onuesoke In recent times, conversations around economic rebasing have returned to the forefront of national discourse. Many governments, particularly in developing countries like Nigeria, are eager to announce updated GDP figures. But troubling signs abound: some of these figures are drawn from random databases, speculative projections,...
•Warri Refinery The Director General of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), Segun Ajayi-Kadiri, has urged the federal government to fully privatise the country’s state-owned refineries, describing them as a “pure drain on the Nigerian economy.” Ajayi-Kadiri, who was a guest on Channels Television last night, argued that the governm...
•MAN Director General, Segun Ajayi-Kadir The challenges facing the nation’s manufacturing sector seem to be gradually taking their tolls on the economy. For instance, in Year 2024 alone, over 18,000 jobs were said to have been lost; with a total of 767 companies shut down, as at 2023, due to the nation’s hostile business environment, […...
•Joe Biden and Trump Donald Trump said in a Sunday interview that the “good parts” of today’s US economy flow from his policies while the bad can be blamed on his predecessor Joe Biden, who “did a terrible job.” “Ultimately, I take responsibility for everything,” the US president said in an interview on NBC’s “Meet […]...

