By Dada Olusegun In 2013, the All Progressives Congress rose like a phoenix from the ashes of three legacy political parties each of which subscribe to a progressive brand of politics and ideology. The new party that emerged offered Nigerians a pathway to people-centered progressivism. Millions of Nigerians came on board the APC train and in 2015 unseat the PDP from power. President Muhammadu Buhari, a highly principled socialist mounted the saddle of leadership, inheriting a country almost in comatose with insecurity, a crumbling economy and pervasive grand corruption. With an empty treasury and poor revenue due to low crude…
Author: Michael Chibuzo
By Dada Olusegun President Bola Ahmed Tinubu last week embarked on his second official trip to the Arabian Peninsula since assumption of office five months ago as part of his aggressive drive to further open up Nigeria to the world. The President in early September after attending the G20 Summit in New Delhi had stopped over at Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates for a fruitful bilateral meeting with the UAE authorities. The Arabian peninsula, which is home to countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates etc, is fast becoming a global…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has denied media reports that accredited figures of voters in the Kogi governorship election results uploaded on the INEC Result Viewing (IReV) portal, were tampered with. This clarification was contained in a press statement signed by Mohammed Haruna, INEC’s National Commissioner and member of the Information and Voter Education Committee. The electoral umpire stated that the media reports accusing it of tampering with accreditation data for the Kogi election results are unfounded. “For the avoidance of doubt, the most accurate and up-to-date Voters’ Accreditation Data is available in the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System…
The Nigerian Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress have ordered its members to down tools and proceed with the nationwide strike it called to protest the beating of the NLC President, Joe Ajaero in Imo State when he attempted to mobilise workers in Imo State to embark on a protest in total disregard of a subsisting restraining order. The federal government had earlier secured an order restraining the unions and their affiliates from embarking on the strike. Despite the order from the National Industrial Court, the labour unions still embarked on the nationwide strike. Unions such as Academic Staff Union…
Usman Ododo, the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi State, has been declared the winner of the Kogi state governorship election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Ododo polled 446,237 votes to defeat his closest challenger, Murtala Ajaka of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), who came second with 259,052 votes. Dino Melaye, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), scored 46,362 votes to come a distant third. Ododo won in 13 out of the 21 local government areas in the state while SDP’s Murtala Ajaka won 8 local government areas. Dino Melaye of the PDP…
The Governor of Imo State and candidate of the APC in the 2023 Imo Governorship election, Sen. Hope Uzodimma has been re-elected for a second term after securing a landslide victory at the polls. At the end of the collation at 08:30 am on Sunday, Governor Hope Uzodimma of the All Progressives Congress (APC) had won all the 27 local government results announced with a total vote tally of 540,308 votes. The People’s Democratic Party came a distant second after its candidate Samuel Anyanwu garnered only 71,501 votes. The Labour Party and its candidate, Athan Achonu came third with a…
By Michael Chibuzo In the first part of this series, I introduced the raft of bold economic decisions taken by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the early days of his administration and how it signalled an ambitious attempt to re-engineer Nigeria’s economy away from unhealthy inefficiencies towards productivity-driven growth. With the conclusion of a 3-day Cabinet Retreat where the President’s detailed vision and expectation across all sectors was unveiled to cabinet members, political appointees and to the federal bureaucracy, the pathway of Tinubunomics was effectively solidified. Clear deliverables were set out for each sector within specific time frames. I will…
Following the picketing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport by members of the Nigerian Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress to protest the recent beating of the NLC President, Joe Ajaero in Imo State by some NLC members at the Sam Mbakwe Airport, the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, SAN has warned the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) against disrupting flight operations at the airports. The minister gave the warning on Thursday at the ministerial retreat for the minister, permanent secretary, directors and heads of agencies of the Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development holding in Delta…
By Michael Chibuzo Joe Ajaero, the President of the Nigerian Labour Congress is before our very eyes changing the Nigerian Labour Congress into a full blown opposition political party. The NLC is supposed to be a Labour Center meant to protect the interests of public and private sector workers who are its members and negotiatiate better terms of service with their employers through collective bargaining. However in just 10 months in office, the NLC President, Joe Ajaero seems to be redefining the functions of the NLC and its modus operandi for worse. In the wake of the removal of fuel…
On Monday, November 6th, 2023, Nigerians were yet again subjected to the gruelling task of listening to the lamentations of Mr. Peter Obi, the Labour Party Presidential candidate in the 2023 presidential election. I have since discovered that it is less tortuous to read the text of these Obi incoherent and poor content press conferences than listen to the man as he struggles to read out the content. Peter Obi, a man who was a happy beneficiary of Nigeria’s judicial system starting from the Federal High Court, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court and was restored to office…