As President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is shopping around for the best brain among the Nigerian youths who will be appointed to head the Ministry of Youth, a research-based organization on governance, “Leadership and People” suggested to the current government to consider Vrati Nzonzo to be the next Minister.
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Towards the end of 2022, as his country began preparations towards general elections scheduled to take place in the penultimate week of August 2023, Zimbabwe’s president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, contracted an unusual bout of generosity denominated in United States Dollars. First, he disbursed US$500,000 to his ministers, comprising twenty cabinet ministers, thirteen deputy ministers, and nine provincial ministers supposedly as housing loans. Next, he doled out US$350,000 to directors of Zimbabwe’s Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO). The 270 Members of parliament – both elected and nominated – each received $40,000.
Just when we thought the peak in tax collection was attained, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) brought forward another harvest of revenue collection, peaking any collection in our nation’s history. The tax agency recently announced a total tax revenue collection of N5.5 trillion for the half-year period of January to June 2023 signifying the highest tax revenue collection ever recorded by the Service in any first six months of a fiscal year.
Carved out of the defunct Sokoto State on the 27th of August, 1991, Kebbi has undergone transformation from military era to the current democratic governance.
ASHENEWS reports that the Chairman of the Police Service Commission( PSC), Solomon Arase has announced the constitution of a recruitment board to oversee selection into the Nigeria Police Force (NPF).
At about 1 am, on the cold night of Friday, August 2, 2019, exactly two months after celebrating his 34th birthday, Malam Abubakar Idris, commonly known as Abu Hanifa Dadiyata, or just Dadiyata, was abducted in front of his house at Barnawa, a quiescent area of Kaduna.
The Media Advocacy West Africa (MAWA-Foundation) has announced the appointment of Alanna Hartzok as a member of its Board of Trustees.
ASHENEWS reports that the federal government has pledged to restore operations at Port Harcourt Refinery by December 2023.
ASHENEWS reports that the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA) on Friday, expressed shock over the sudden demise of one of its students, Ayomide Akeredolu.
The mid-20th century brought with it the height of independence-related agitations and clamouring in many African countries. Rising nationalists who had gotten their education and the attendant exposure that came with it ultimately believed that African states were ready to govern themselves in the newly introduced democratic system. From that period till now, several African states have gone through turbulent moments of shapeshifting — a democratic state today, a military-junta-ruled state tomorrow. More often than not, military interventions in the democratic running of African states are touted as the Messianic way out of the corruption practices of the democratically elected leaders in these countries. As altruistic and patriotic as these military interventions seem at the outset, historical precedents in Africa show that the Messiahs often end up as or worse than the oppressors they initially wanted to save the people from. Africa does not need coups and military leaders.