•Sowore and Tinubu The 2023 presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has criticised Nigeria’s new tax reforms, warning that policies that burden poor citizens will provoke public resistance. The human rights activist, in an interview on Channels Television today, argued that Nigerians are already overstretch...
Three years after its commercial launch in Nigeria, the fifth-generation (5G) network remains an exclusive offering available to wealthy customers in major cities, failing to deliver on its mass digital transformation promise. Prohibitively high cost of compatible devices and limited network expansion are among its bidding constraints, reports...
•Okonjo-Iweala and Tinubu The Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has called on the federal government to put social safety nets in place for poor Nigerians who are feeling the pains of President Bola Tinubu’s economic reforms. Okonjo-Iweala stated this today after a meeting with the president at the...
National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) has said the hike in electricity tariff is further exploitation of the masses who are already heavily burdened by the economic situation of the country. NUEE said the sensibility of the increase is begging for explanation, as there has not been any meaningful improvement since the privatisation of...

