Browsing: Bola Tinubu

It gives me immense joy to welcome each and everyone of you – young and old- to this brand new year 2024. We must lift up our hands to Almighty God, in gratitude, for His grace and benevolence to our country and our lives in the year 2023 that has just gone by.

In the realm of budget allocations, the Northern region of Nigeria, with its vast population and expansive landmass, has consistently found itself at a disadvantage. The 2024 budget allocation is no exception, as the region has once again been overlooked and marginalized. Surprisingly, the elected representatives from the North, who are supposed to advocate for the good of the region, have remained silent, succumbing to their own insatiable greed and fear.

Rivers, a state so rich because God blessed it with an abundance of crude oil and gas, is named after the many rivers that border its territory. Forty per cent of Nigeria’s output of crude oil is produced in the state. It also has deposits of silica sand, glass sand and clay.

Nigeria’s human rights lawyer, and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana has argued that it is outside the provision of the constitution for President Bola Tinubu’s intervention to result in reinstating the 27 members of the Rivers State House of Assembly, who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).