•Tinubu Two years after President Bola Tinubu’s May 2023 decision to end subsidies on premium motor spirit (petrol), the federal government may have saved at least N7 trillion, but the unintended consequences triggered by sharp inflation and impact on vulnerable households and small businesses continue to linger. Small businesses, already stru...
•Peter Obi Amid growing rumours of a possible coalition among opposition leaders to unseat President Bola Tinubu in 2027, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has said that the only coalition he is interested in is the one against hunger, poverty, and the terrible state of healthcare and […]
•NLC President Joe Ajaero A few days ago, the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, on behalf of the Nigerian workers, received a two-man delegation from the International Monetary Fund, IMF, comprising the IMF Resident Representative for Nigeria, Christian H. Ebeke, and, Axel Schimmelpfennig from Washington, D.C. The purpose of the ...
•Prisoners Nigeria’s correctional facilities (Prisons) have long been criticised for their deplorable conditions, with many inmates emerging worse than they entered. Rather than rehabilitate, these prisons have become death traps where hunger, disease, and brutality reign, reports Saturday Independent. Freed inmates recount horrifying experien...
•Oborevwori and Tinubu Delta State Governor Sheriff Oborevwori has criticised President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led government’s economic policies, saying it has unleashed “unprecedented hunger, poverty, and mass unemployment” on Nigerians. Oborevwori kicked against petroleum subsidy removal and floating of the naira, saying whatever gains the subsi...
•Tinubu with JBS executives President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has called on JBS S.A, one of the top three largest meat processing companies globally, to consider investment in Nigeria’s livestock sector, saying there’s hunger in Nigeria at the moment. Tinubu said this yesterday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at the signing of a Letter of Intent […...
•G20 leaders The Group of 20 world leaders, yesterday, inaugurated a Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty, during the opening session of the 19th Heads of State and Government Summit ongoing in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The alliance signed by all member countries empowers a Task Force to implement practical activities between 2025 and 2030...
Depositors of the recently liquidated Heritage Bank have appealed to President Bola Tinubu over the non-payment of their deposits since the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) revoked the bank’s license on June 3, 2024. The depositors, many of whom are facing severe economic hardship, lament that more than 200 of their members have died from [&helli...
•Leftovers at parties Economic woes continue to befall Nigerians, due to the rising cost of living. Job loss, unemployment, and low patronage in businesses are taking their toll on many, reports Vanguard. Our correspondent discovered that adults are not the only recipients of these woes, as they have extended to children. Findings revealed tha...
The Food and Agriculture Organisation(FAO), UNICEF and World Food Programme(WFP) said the economic hardship, climate change and violence in the Northeast region are projected to push 33.1million Nigerians into food insecurity in 2025. A statement issued by Chi Lael, Head of Communications and Media, United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), N...

