•Yoruba Leader Adebanji Akintoye Leader of the Ilana Omo Oodua, Professor Banji Akintoye has disagreed with leaders of the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, on restructuring saying the Yoruba Nation wants self-determination not restructuring. He said this when he was featured on Arise television. The professor of History who ...
•Troops The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff AssociaÂtion of Nigeria, (PENGASSAN), has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to deploy more military personnel to the Niger Delta, to halt crude oil theft, and generate more revenue for the country. Comrade Festus Osifo President of PENGASSAN, made the call on the sidelines of the National Exec...
The Police Service Commission (PSC) has demanded sanctions against the Commissioners of Police in Imo and Delta States over killings of some police officers. The commission specifically said the killings in some states had become worrisome while calling on the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, to take another look at the capacity ...
•Atiku With the coming on stream of the 188mw Geometric Power Plant in Aba, Abia State, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has stressed the need for the government to open up the entire power sector from generation to transmission for private investments. In a statement he issued today to commend those behind the power project, […]
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said the commencement of negotiation of the new National Minimum Wage in 2024 would be based on the prevailing cost of living in the country. Mr Joe Ajaero, NLC President, said this at the ongoing 19th edition of the NLC 2023 Harmattan School, organised by the Congress today in […]
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is really having a ball—at the expense of the rest of Nigeria. He has become so comfortable in his presidential self-indulgence that he now wants to wring water from stones and deposit it into an ocean. Our stone-broke universities are the stones. The presidency is the ocean to which Tinubu wants […]
•Paul Ananaba A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Prof. Paul Ananaba has advocated for all election petitions to be concluded within 60 days and before swearing-in. The Supreme Court had yesterday affirmed President Bola Tinubu’s election, 171 days after the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party (LP) lodged their appeal...