Akande’s biography is a deliberate falsehood, a biography of lies used as legitimate means to achieve political ends for Tinubu 2023 presidential ambition. It’s a biography of bullshit! Bisi Akande’s My Participations reads as if it was dictated, not written. All the way through, we hear Bola Tinubu’s voice. It’s like being cornered in a bees’ hive and harangued endlessly by his political foes. A biography of lies. I abandoned the book after few pages! I won’t waste my precious time talking about the book. In his remarks during the launching of the book, Akande has the shameless audacity, reckless…
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Against plans by the federal government to remove fuel subsidy, the National Executive Council (NEC) of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has resolved to hold a national protest on February 1, 2022. This is contained in a communiqué signed and issued by NLC President, Ayuba Wabba and General Secretary, Emmanuel Ugboaja, after the NEC meeting in Abuja on Friday. The NLC said before the national protest, the labour union would hold protest rallies in all the 36 states of the country on January 27, against the subsidy removal. The communique noted that the removal of the fuel subsidy would expose…
The Debt Management Office (DMO) has clarified that loans from China to Nigeria, which presently stood at $3.59 billion, constitutes only 9.4 per cent of the country’s total foreign debt stock of $37.9 billion. The Director-General of DMO, Patience Oniha who made this known in an interview in Abuja on Saturday, also clarified that the loans were largely concessional, as no national asset was tagged as collateral. In recent times, both the social and mainstream media have been awash with news about some African countries, including Nigeria, facing the threat of losing some critical national assets to the Asian country…
By Aderogba George Faster Project of the Catholic Relief Services (CRS), an NGO, has advocated the adoption of HIV self-testing kit as an effective strategy in scaling-up HIV testing for epidemic response. The Project Director, CRS, Dr Chizoba Mbanefo, said this at a one-day symposium on HIV Self- testing Programming (HIVST) in Nigeria, organised by Faster Project of the catholic Relief Services (CRS). The theme of the event is tagged “HIVST Programming in Nigeria- The Journey so far”. She said that the two year programme from 2019 to 2021 was designed to accelerate progress in paediatric HIV diagnosis and treatment…
The federal government, states and local government councils have received N675.946 billion from the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee, FAAC, for the month of November. A communiqué issued at the end of December meeting of FAAC, said the N675.946 billion distributable revenue comprised statutory revenue of N488.674 billion; distributable Value Added Tax (VAT) revenue of N182.678 billion, Exchange Gain of N4.156 billion and Excess Bank Charges Recovered of N0.438 billion. In November 2021, the total deductions for cost of collection was N30.957 billion and the total deductions for statutory transfers, refunds and savings was N136.908 billion. The balance in the Excess…
The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has said that undemocratic takeover of government in some West African sub-region has created a great challenge for Electoral Commissions. He spoke at the plenary of the ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions’ (ECONEC) 7th Biennial General Assembly holding in Accra, Ghana. According to Yakubu, the development as a democratic and electoral retrogression, underscores the need for free, fair, and credible elections. “We are facing great challenges. We are having democratic and electoral retrogression in the sub-region, and we have had undemocratic takeover in one or two places.…
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting in Abuja on Friday, nullified the local government congress conducted by governor Abdullahji Ganduje’s faction of the All Progressive Congress (APC). Solacebase reports that presiding Justice Hamza Muazu, upheld the local government congress of Senator Ibrahim Shekarau’s faction. The court on November 30th had declared Ganduje faction’s ward congresses illegal. Details later…
First Bank of Nigeria has unveiled the calendar of events for its yearly DecemberIssaVybe campaign which, it says, will impact much on the entertainment industry. The Group Head of Marketing/Corporate Communications, FirstBank, Folake Ani-Mumuney made the disclosure in a statement on Friday in Lagos. Ani-Mumuney said that the campaign which started in 2018 had been full of excitements for Nigerians. According to the official, the 30-day event would feature musical shows and concerts, comedies, fashion, arts and food fairs aimed to evoke joyful moods as Christmas and New Year celebrations approach. “We are delighted to be back with DecemberIssaVybe. The…
Sultan Sa’ad Abubakar has warned political and religious leaders and all Nigerians against politicising insecurity in the country. Criminal activities including banditry, terrorism and others have been on the increase, especially in the Northwest, Northeast and other parts of Nigeria. Speaking in Abuja at a retreat on inclusive security organised by the Global Peace Foundation in collaboration with Vision Africa, the Sultan assessed the nation’s security situation and said all was not well with the nation. “We must not politicise insecurity because hunger does not know politics, religion. Everybody has been complaining of hunger in the land and it is…
A divorce-seeking man, Olanrewaju Adeniran has told a Grade A Customary Court sitting in Mapo, Ibadan that he stopped sleeping with his wife, Fatima, because she says he smells. Testifying on Friday, Adeniran, a retired civil servant also sought for divorce on grounds that his wife was rude and was becoming a threat to his life. “After our wedding in May 1995, Fatima started misbehaving. She is rude to my mother and relatives. “She beats me and grabs my private parts. Fatima calls me bastard, lazy man and so many other unprintable names,” he said. The petitioner further said that…