•Tinubu President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said that Nigerian motorists now have a choice between paying N1,000 per litre for Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), commonly known as petrol, and buying Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) at N200 per Standard Cubic Meter. The president said this yesterday during a meeting with executives of the Nigerian Independent...
The Continental chairman of Diaspora Organisation Americas (NiDOA) Dr Victor Ubani, has said Nigerians in the diaspora played an active role in nation building as he added that there was no better time for Nigerians to work more closely together and contribute their quota to the nation building. Ubani, who doubles as Coordinating Chairman of [...
•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...
In a record-breaking deportation flight, 44 Nigerians and Ghanaians were forcibly removed from the UK on Friday, marking a significant surge in immigration enforcement. According to The Guardian.com/uk The Home Office confirmed the action as part of a broader crackdown on immigration, which has seen the deportation of over 3,600 people since t...
Despite the rising cost of living spreading like wildfire across the country, Nigerians paid 24 per cent more to purchase one litre of the Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) or petrol in September. This is as the World Bank in its latest report on Nigeria, said 129 million Nigerians currently live below poverty. In its Nigeria […]
Nigerians are once again reeling in darkness following the collapse of the national power grid for the third in one week. The grid collapse occurred early this morning, with many states reporting total blackouts, reports Channels TV. Data obtained from the Nigerian System Operator’s portal (niggrid.org), revealed that the grid recorded an unpr...
•Tinubu and World Bank Last Tuesday, October 15, 2024, Nigerians got the shock of their lives even as they grappled with hunger and pains occasioned by government policies. The World Bank Senior Vice President, Indermit Gill, declared in Abuja that it would take at least 10 or 15 years for President Bola Tinubu’s economic reforms […]...
Reforms undertaken by Nigeria’s government are “essential” but have piled pressure on its people, more than half of whom live in poverty, the World Bank has said. Since coming to power in May 2023, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has introduced reforms aimed at reviving the economy of Africa’s most populous nation. Measures include the liberalisat...
•Car owners now turn to public transportation The country’s economic crisis and soaring petrol prices have forced Bolaji Emmanuel to give up his driver and his Honda Pilot utility vehicle. He is struggling with spiking living costs, reports AFP. Emmanuel is not alone. Many in Africa’s most populous country are abandoning their cars as the [&he...
•Aerial view of houses submerged in flood The federal government, through the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA), has advised Nigerians living around river banks along the River Benue Basin to quickly move to safer grounds. In a statement today, NIHSA Director General, Umar Mohammed, warned that water on the River Benue has reached t...

