Nigeria: The Resurgence of Fuel Queues

Despite claims to a removal of subsidy in the downstream sector of the petroleum industry and the fact that the pump price has almost quadrupled since last May, long queues of… Read more »

Nigeria: We're Not Operating Two Versions of 2024 Budget - Presidency

The Presidency has reacted officially to allegations on Saturday by Chairman of Northern Senators Forum, Senator Abdul Ningi, that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu padded the 2024… Read more »

Nigeria: Ramadan Begins Today, Sultan of Sokoto Declares

*Atiku enjoins Nigerians to up charity Read more »

Nigeria: Food Security - the Bago Challenge

Against the run of play, Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago of Niger State ruffled feathers with his speech at the 2023 annual Leadership Newspaper Conference and Awards held in Abuja… Read more »

Nigeria: Neca, Cppe Commend FG's Suspension of $15,000 Expatriate Employment Levy

*Say move shows Tinubu runs listening government Read more »

Nigeria: Concern Mounts As New Vigilante Corps in Katsina, Zamfara Reinforce Banditry

*UNICEF: Nigerian children deserve to learn in peace, rues abduction of 287 Kaduna students*UN Special Envoy, Gordon Brown promises global support for safe school initiative in… Read more »

Nigeria: 2024 IWD - Tinubu Celebrates Nigerian Women, Says They Are Pivots of the Nation

Deji Elumoye, Michael Olugbode, Adedayo Akinwale and Sunday Aborisade in Abuja Read more »

Nigeria: I Will Take Exact Same MPC Decisions If I Were CBN Governor - Tony Elumelu

Nigerian business mogul and Chairman of Heirs Holdings and the United Bank for Africa (UBA), Mr Tony Elumelu, has said that he would take the same exact decisions the Central Bank… Read more »

Nigeria: With Collapse of Local Govts, 287 Pupils, Teachers Kidnapped in Kaduna

The kidnap, yesterday, of some 287 students and pupils of the LEA Primary and Secondary Schools, Kuriga, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, as well as some of their… Read more »

Nigeria: Moghalu - Monetary Tightening Should Have Preceded FX Rate Unification

•Wants NNPCL reformed, stripped of opaqueness •Suggests $20-$30bn IMF stabilisation facility to resolve FX crisis Read more »

Nigeria: Army Mortuaries and Matters Arising

The dead must be treated with dignity Read more »

Ghana: Bank of Ghana Suspends Forex Trading Licences of GTBank, FBN Bank Amid Regulatory Breaches

The Bank of Ghana has issued a temporary suspension of the Foreign Exchange Trading Licences of Guaranty Trust Bank Ghana Limited (GTB) and FBNBank Ghana Limited (FBN) starting… Read more »

Nigeria: New Justices of the Supreme Court

REUBEN ABATI Read more »

Nigeria: Addressing the Hunger Problem

The authorities must do more to cushion cost of living crisis Read more »

Nigeria: Next Mergers After Oronsaye

Hot on the heels of last week's decision by President Tinubu and the Federal Executive Council to fish out former Head of Service Steve Oronsaye's report from the file cabinets,… Read more »

Nigeria: Anyaoku - Current Constitution Cannot Resolve Nigeria's Economic Challenges

Former Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, has said the current Nigerian Constitution would not adequately address the nation's economic predicaments and… Read more »

Nigeria: In Qatar, Tinubu Says Nation-Building Requires Perseverance, Patriotism to Succeed

·Insists Nigeria will survive with human capital devt Read more »

Nigeria: Rights and Wrongs in Nigeria's Diplomacy - From Regional Integration to the Qatari Note Verbale

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu (PBAT) has adopted the diplomacy of 4-Ds (Development, Democracy, Demography, and Diaspora) as foci and guiding principles of Nigeria's foreign… Read more »

Nigeria: From Udoji Award to Oronsaye Report

It is in order to say President Bola Tinubu is actually showing some balls with many decisions he has taken since he assumed power, although the jury is still out on the reforms. Read more »

Nigeria: Implementing the Oronsaye Report

The aim is to cut costs, but there are challenges ahead Read more »

Nigeria: Embarking On Strike 9 Months Into My Govt Unacceptable - Tinubu to Labour

President Bola Tinubu on Thursday used the opportunity of the inauguration of the Lagos Red Line Rail Project in Ikeja to lambast organised labour unions for series of strike… Read more »

Nigeria: My Boss, Distinguished Senator Udoma, Is 70

It would be a thing of great surprise for those who have met him physically to imagine that he is already seventy years old. But he is. Distinguished Senator Udoma Udo Udoma was… Read more »

Nigeria: Five Monsters Nigeria Must Tame

I like to proceed by taking a largely critical look at Nigeria's development crisis and attempt to proffer some solutions to our more obvious challenges. I anchor this on what I… Read more »

Nigeria: NLC Begins Protest, As Workers Defy Threat of Clampdown

Amidst fears of possible move by the authorities to prevent the national protest by organised labour, workers under the auspices of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Tuesday morning… Read more »

Nigeria: The Idea of a One-Day General Election

It is worth intense attention Read more »