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President Muhammadu Buhari recently disclosed that he has directed the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission (NSIWC) to carry out an upward review of salaries of police officers. The President also stated that 10,000 new personnel are being recruited into the force, declaring that no administration since 1999 was as committed as his administration in…
The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has been disastrous for all economies around the world including Nigeria. The downturn in the Nigerian economy precedes the epidemic, however, as GDP per head has been on the descent since 2015. Presently, everything is now very expensive. Inflation is as high as 18%, while food is at 23%….
When General Abdulsalami Abubakar came to power in 1998, he set up a Constitutional Review Committee headed by late Honorable Justice Niki Tobi of the Supreme Court, who hailed from the South-South. The Committee, after touring the country stated in its report that based on the memorandums received, the majority of people in Nigeria were…
Following the recent ban on Twitter for being a platform where separatists and dissidents flow freely with hate speeches and violence, the Federal Government is now insisting that Twitter must be fully registered and licensed to operate again in Nigeria. The federal government is equally insisting that the company as well as all other social…
In Lagos, on Thursday, June 10, President Mohammadu Buhari launched the highly anticipated Integrated National Security and Waterways Protection Infrastructure, also known as the Deep Blue Project. The project assets consist of $195 million worth of equipment that will be deployed in a coordinated effort to secure Nigerian waters along the Gulf of Guinea. The…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, June 10 2021 launched the Lagos-Ibadan railway project’s commercial operations at the Mobolaji Johnson Railway Station in Ebute Metta, Lagos, The President hailed the achievement as “another landmark in this administration’s drive to revitalize the railway system and establish it as a preferred mode of transportation for both passengers and…
On the 4th of June 2021, President Muhammadu Buhari instructed the Sports Ministry to team up with Nigerian Football Federation and come up with a 10-year National Football Master Plan for Nigeria. President Buhari gave the order when he received the Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Mr. Sunday Dare, and NFF President, Amaju Pinnick…
Few days after the latest violent attacks by scores of gunmen on Igangan, an agrarian community in Ibarapa North Local Government of Oyo State; the state governor Engr. Seyi Makinde had bemoaned the recurring wanton destruction of lives and properties in the region. He is calling on the Federal Government to permit governors in the…
As a Septuagenarian, I cannot but feel concerned for the way our great nation, Nigeria is going. In my first decades on earth which were spent in Nigeria, I saw Nigeria as a country that I was extremely proud of as my motherland. Few months before I graduated from the University of Lagos in 1972,…
I saw a video clip of a group of young Yoruba elites canvassing the creation of Oduduwa Republic. The spokesman claimed that they are not even interested in restructuring;, that it is late in the day, but the outright creation of Oduduwa Republic. Carrying placards, they insist they are fed up with Nigeria and that…
