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.
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ASHENEWS reports that Sultan Saad Abubakar has expressed worry over the suffering, insecurity, impoverishment, and unemployment experienced by Nigerians, especially in the North, and called on President Bola Tinubu to expedite action on the situation before the people revolt against the government.
The former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), and 14th Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi has said that President Bola Tinubu is not responsible for the hardship being faced by Nigerians at the moment.
President Bola Tinubu, on Friday, signed the Electricity Act (Amendment) Bill 2024 into law. The bill, which was passed by both the House of Representatives and the Senate in 2023, was sponsored by Hon. Babajide Benson of Ikorodu constituency of Lagos State.
The Federal Government has issued a directive for the immediate release of 102,000 metric tonnes of rice, maize, millet, and garri from government reserves and the stocks of rice millers to the Nigerian market, to tackle the persistent issue of high food prices
“It is an arbitrary order capable of undermining the operational independence of the NNPCL. By this order, Mr. President has wrested control of the finances of the NNPCL and donated the same to the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank of Nigeria. This is an unprecedented act, without any legal or ethical basis. It is also a violation of the principle of due process in public administration”
Former Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has told President Bola Tinubu to note that basic commodities, including a simple stapple – bread, are becoming out of reach for average Nigerians. He says Tinubu’s “economic policies, drawn from a so-called renewed hope agenda, are ironically dashing hopes, creating pain and causing despair.”
The Nigerien military junta has claimed that the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is not only influenced by certain foreign powers but has also “diverted from its noble missions.” Even as it regrets Nigeria’s role in decimating its exit from the west African bloc.
Former Vice president Atiku Abubakar has chided President Bola Tinubu for enabrking on private visit to France while kidnappers kill a nursing mother and grandmother in Abuja for failing to pay N90 million ransom and two monarchs in Ekiti.
ASHENEWS reports that President Bola Tinubu has approved the “Pulaaku Initiative”, and allocated the sum of N50 billion to the initiative, in its first instance, as non-kinetic solution to deal with insurgency and banditry in the Northern parts of Nigeria.