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.
Browsing: Bola Tinubu
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.
According to him, “it is inconceivable for the Federal Government to take a loan of $3.3 billion with an interest rate that is not more than 12 per cent, but with estimated repayment amounting to $12 billion”, adding that it is also that “Nigeria’s current Barrels Produced Daily (BPD) is 1.38 million, and according to the Project Gazelle deal, Nigeria is to supply 90,000 Barrels of its daily production, starting from 2024 till it is up to 164.25 million barrels for the repayment of the loan.”
The Katsina Elders’ Forum has warned President Bola Tinubu against the plan to relocate the refurbished airport rescue and firefighting vehicles project of the Umaru Musa Yar’Adua International Airport in Katsina to the South or risk the votes of Northerners in 2027.
The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Policy and Coordination and Head of Central Delivery and Coordination Unit, Hadiza Bala-Usman, has revealed that ministers who fail to deliver on their mandates will be sacked.
The Senate Committee Chairman on the Army, Ali Ndume has warned President Bola Tinubu that relocating some departments of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) headquarters to Lagos, will have political implication.
Blinken’s plane touched down at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja at 4.40 pm local time, 35 minutes beyond the expected time of arrival.
“It is worth noting that the movement of service chiefs out of station (Abuja) is with the prior knowledge of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), the Honourable Minister of Defence (HMOD), and the presidency. So, why was a meeting scheduled for about the same time that the late COAS was to have departed for (or arrived) Kaduna and why the insistence that he (COAS) should not be represented?”
Former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has said that Nigerians should not complain about President Bola Tinubu’s ‘economic cbaos’ because they had the opportunity to vote right.