•Falana and Tinubu Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has criticised President Bola Tinubu’s economic reforms, stating that the administration’s “harsh neoliberal policies” have decimated Nigeria’s middle class and worsened living conditions for millions of citizens. Falana noted that despite the president recently acknowledging the economic ha...
•Chimamanda Adichie Iconic Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie says the suffering of ordinary Nigerians is what worries her most about the country’s current economic situation. Chimamanda lamented that the ongoing hardship has reduced many middle-class Nigerians, who were previously managing to get by, to the point of begging. In an exclu...
•Imasuen and Tinubu A Labour Party (LP) Senator who represents Edo South in the National Assembly, Neda Imasuen, has faulted the twin policies of petrol subsidy removal and unification of forex windows by the President Bola Tinubu administration. Imasuen, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, was a gu...
•Cardinal Onaiyekan The former Archbishop of Abuja Catholic Archdiocese, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, has called for a policy review to minimise the current economic hardship in the country, pointing out that “you can’t tell someone to be patient with poverty while we see the people who are supposed to address our poverty live flamboyantly.” He ma...

