Browsing: Bola Tinubu

In spite of President Bola Tinubu’s move to cut down the cost of governance, and his recent move to merge, or eliminate some government agencies, the same president is set to visit Qatar with two of his children, Seyi and Yinka, as part of the delegation delegation to travel with him, between March 2nd and 3rd 2024, on a state visit to Doha, capital of Qatar.

The Tinubu Administration is a fanatic believer in economic liberalism and market forces. Based on its belief, it cancelled fuel subsidy and floated the naira so that it can find its true value. The naira played its part and has been rising steadily desperately searching for its true market value, which it turns out, is still very far away. The result is a “misery crisis” as cost of living rise beyond the incomes of ordinary citizens whose naira is too small to enable them purchase food and hunger and anger spreads throughout the land. The President who always tells Nigerians that he understands their pains then offers a solution and orders distribution of free grains from the Strategic Food Reserves. It turned out the civil servants forgot to brief him that the reserves are empty.

There is certainly a seeming lack of policy coordination in reform implementation (both vertically-between FG and other tiers, and horizontally- within the FG itself)- which is neither new nor surprising. Public policy coordination has remained an age-old issue in government and a fundamental problem for efficient service delivery in public administration and policy.

In the face of the raging insecurity in Nigeria, the federal government in collaboration with state governments (Nigerian governors) are considering the creation of state police. This was part of deliberations between President Bola Tinubu and state governors at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Thursday.