By Fanimokun Oluwasegun John David Hundeyin is a name I have come to unconsciously associate with fiction and Illusion. He calls himself an investigative journalist – a term so bastardized in the Nigerian media space to the point that fictional writers stay under the moonlight to manufacture tales, which they later wear the garment of breaking news and push down the willing throat of a hoard of unthinking mob. Watching his latest video appeal to the Ghanaian president simply reinforces my description of him. David Hundeyin in the past three years has not been content with restricting himself to…
Author: Michael Chibuzo
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is set to unveil a proposed new minimum wage for Nigerian workers next week. This is according to the President of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Comrade Festus Osifo, who made this known when he appeared on Channels TV program, ‘Politics Today’ on Tuesday. This marks a breakthrough in negotiations between the Federal Government and Labour unions and is coming on the heels of a crucial meeting held between one of the Labour Unions, the TUC and the federal government to discuss issues surrounding the removal of fuel subsidies and efforts to cushion the impact of…
The Executive Director of Dangote Group, Devakumar Edwin has stated that the Dangote Refinery will start diesel and jet fuel refining operations by October 2023 and petrol refining by November 2023. Devakumar Edwin made the statement during an interview with S&P Global Commodity Insights yesterday. According to him, the Dangote refinery will receive its first cargo of crude in the next two weeks and will begin producing up to 370,000 barrels per day of diesel and jet fuel from October 2023. He also noted that by November 30, the refinery will start the phased ramp-up to 650,000 barrels per day…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was sworn in three months ago and immediately hit the ground running with a raft of bold economic decisions most notably, the removal of fuel subsidy and the floating of the Naira following the unification of the foreign exchange multiple windows of the CBN. These bold decisions sent strong and clear signals to observers within and outside the country that Nigeria was now ready to deal with its perennial economic demons. The twin steps of fuel subsidy removal and foreign exchange market reforms brought about immediate spike in the cost of living of Nigerians for…
Yesterday, I once again laboured to watch the presentation of the former Governor of my dear state, Anambra in Bangladesh at a Commonwealth Trade and Investment Forum during a panel discussion on formalising and internationalising SMEs. Mr. Peter Obi in his usual manner of reeling out both necessary and unnecessary figures and statistics to impress his audience found himself struggling to remain coherent. From the look on the faces of the audience and panelists during Mr. Peter Obi’s presentation, one could see a feeling of ‘what’s this man saying exactly!’ written all over them especially when he struggled to…
The newly appointed Acting Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr. Zacch Adedeji, has resumed office today at the FIRS headquarters after a brief handover ceremony from the immediate past Chairman of the FIRS, Mohammad Nami. Mr. Zacch Adedeji, who until his appointment was the Special Adviser to the President on Revenue, upon assuming office as FIRS Boss stated that his target is to help Nigeria surpass Africa’s average tax-to-GDP ratio of 16.5 per cent and achieve a minimum of 18 per cent within three years from the current 10.86 per cent. Mr. Zacch Adedeji said that Nigeria…
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar filed a lawsuit in a US District Court in Illinois, requesting that Chicago State University (CSU) release all of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s academic records in their custody as he attempts to prove alleged irregularities in the certificate President Tinubu submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Atiku first made this request through a subpoena application under the US Statute 28 USC §1782 for discovery of documents. Atiku’s lawyers are arguing that they need the court to compel CSU to turn over all the records they are requesting about President Tinubu to them so as…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on 10th September 2023, held a brief chat with his US counterpart, President Joe Biden, at the G20 Summit in India. President Tinubu used the opportunity to reaffirm the strong relations between the two countries. He further expressed his desire for more robust engagements in the near future to discuss economic cooperation, democracy and regional stability, multilateral reforms, and other key issues. Announcing the meeting with Nigeria’s President, the US White House published its own press statement, which reads: “President Joe Biden met with Nigerian President Bola Tinubu today on the sidelines of the G20 in…
I have been on reflection mode since the judgment of the PEPC few days ago and as I watched an Instagram interview of BRF by Morayo Afolabi-Brown on February 1, 2023, it struck me that the mere fact that all the 2023 presidential election petitions were able to be concluded by the PEPC in less than 180 days stipulated by the Electoral Act 2022 was ironically because of a legacy of then Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu! What Fashola said about how the judicial reforms carried out by Bola Ahmed Tinubu were eventually adopted at the Federal level is completely…
Former Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN has congratulated President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Vice President Senator Kashim Shettima on the ruling of the Presidential Elections Petition Tribunal confirming the victory of the All Progressives Congress at the Presidential Election of February 25th, 2023. In a statement personally signed by the former Vice President he stated that “the ruling is a great victory for Nigeria’s constitutional democracy and the rule of law. The practice of democracy in our nation has been further strengthened by the fact that all parties faithfully followed the electoral process according to the law and relied…