•Tinubu Mixed reactions have been trailing the suspension of the much-anticipated student loan scheme introduced by the federal government. Recall that the federal government postponed the launch of the Nigerian Student Loan Scheme indefinitely. The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund, Akintunde Sawyer, made this in an inte...
•Bags of cement Nigerians, especially the low and middle-income earners, have cried out over the present high cost of cement saying they will no longer be able to own their houses in the country. This is just as the Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria, REDAN, declared that unless a sustainable solution was found to […]
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is yet to resume visa services for Nigerian citizens wishing to visit the country. Several news outlets (not The Frontier) had reported that UAE on March 4 lifted the visa restriction on Nigerian travellers. But Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy, refuted the viral ...
As the economic downturn continues, all areas of Nigerian lives and plans are also striving to grapple with the situation, as areas like housing and rent are also being affected. Nigerians are used to building with cement, but now have to go for other alternatives, as the price of cement is now on the high […]
•Nigerians looting warehouse Some residents of the Federal Capital Territory today looted a warehouse reportedly belonging to the National Emergency Management Agency of Nigeria over the current economic hardship across the country. It was learnt that the warehouse is situated in the Phase 3 Region of the FCT area of Abuja, reports Sunday PUNC...
•Shehu Sani and Tinubu Former Kaduna Senator, Shehu Sani, has advised President Bola Tinubu’s administration to work hard and fix the economy to avoid the looming protest of angry Nigerians. The ex-federal lawmaker said this kind of protest does not come with a notice like the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress. Sani [&hellip...
•Professor Wole Soyinka Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has urged the government at all levels to desist from taking citizens for a fool so as to bridge the gap between leaders and the led. Soyinka, who was a guest speaker at the Punch’s 50th anniversary lecture themed ‘Recovering the Narrative,’ insisted that the government ought [&hel...
•Mohammed Idris The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, today, eased fear of job losses after the implementation of the Oronsaye Report. Idris disclosed this in a statement signed by his media aide, Rabiu Ibrahim today, reports The PUNCH. Twelve years after it received the Stephen Oronsaye Report, the federal gove...
•Peter Obi Presidential Candidate of Labour Party in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, has expressed concern over the widespread hardship in the land. Commenting on the stampede that occurred during a rice auction the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) organised to ameliorate hardship in the land, Obi said it was unfortunate that Nigerians we...
•LUTH gate The Editor-in-Chief and Chief Executive Officer of The Source magazine, Comfort Obi, in this article, narrates how Nigeria’s chaotic health system, typified by the rot in the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Lagos, led to the death of a United States-based Nigerian, Mr Olaleye Adenibuyan. On January 24, 2024, Nigeria l...

