•Late Buhari A former Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, has said ex-President Muhammadu Buhari deliberately retained the petrol subsidy during his tenure to prevent widespread hardship and loss of life among Nigerians. Nwajiuba said this while appearing on ARISE Television, where he defended Buhari’s economic decisions and...
President Bola Tinubu says he has no regrets about removing petrol subsidy in May 2023, insisting that Nigeria cannot continue to be Father Christmas to neighbouring countries. “I don’t have any regrets whatsoever in removing petrol subsidy. We are spending our future, we were just deceiving ourselves, that reform was necessary,” the former La...
•Jonathan and Tinubu During his inaugural address at Eagle Square, Abuja, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu exclaimed “Subsidy is gone”, resulting in an instant increase in fuel price from N198 per litre to N540. According to the president, fuel subsidy had become a clog in the wheel of progress and needed to give way for the […]
Tinubu A public affairs analyst, Majeed Dahiru, has criticised the Tinubu-led federal government over the removal of petrol subsidy, arguing that there is nowhere in the developed world where energy is not subsidised. Speaking on Channels Television last night , Dahiru said that energy is as important to any economy as air is to any […]
•Fuel subsidy removal Ten months after the removal of petrol subsidy by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the federal government has not rolled out electric vehicles as promised. Millions of Nigerians are grappling with the high cost of transportation in the aftermath of the fuel subsidy removal, reports Daily Trust Experts say productivity in work...

