Don’t anybody be fooled by the slogans and the phrases of Nigerian politics. In this country, almost every word that’s gained subscription in the political space is not used in its actual context.
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It is a pedestrian information that while Nigerians were waiting for the commencement of governance, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the day of inauguration, precisely on Monday May 29, 2023, announced the removal of fuel subsidy without putting palliatives in place to assist ameliorate the harsh impact of such policy reversal. Also newsy is that before the dust raised by such a decision could settle, another was up, as the Federal Government again implemented a coordinated but thoughtless hike in fees paid by students of most of the tertiary institutions of higher learning in the country.
Currently, in the world of journalism studies, media studies and mass communication, there is a raging on going debate about the place of journalism. While one school of thought insists journalism is one, another school of thought insists journalism is not and cannot be one. To this school of thought, the word should be journalisms instead of singular journalism.
It is not a constitutional crisis, it’s a constitutional bastardization and devaluation of our democracy if we can all recall how Ahmed Lawal, the 14th President of the Nigerian Senate. A forefront runner of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential aspirant who participated in the party’s primaries and loss.
On Monday May 22, 2023, policymakers and captains of industries from across the world converged at the Lekki axis of Lagos state for the commissioning of the world’s Largest Single-Train 650,000 barrels-per-day petroleum refinery, built by Dangote Group. Going by commentaries, the refinery when become fully operational will give a boost to efforts by the Federal Government to make Nigeria self-sufficient in local refining of crude oil and save the scarce foreign exchange used in the importation of petroleum products.
Even though its has been noted long ago by the sage that no individual, society, state or nation becomes great by living on borrowed funds, a critical look by this piece at the recent approval of a credit facility amounting to N40 billion by the Delta State House of Assembly for the Delta state Governor, Sheriff Francis Oborevwori, for the purpose of assisting the 25 local government councils settle their accumulated pensions owed to retired primary school teachers and local government employees in the state, reveals that the state government’s action was laced with ingrained merit(s).
The truth be told and states the obviously so that people with good morals with not be pricked or be policed by their conscience as against the many unfunded stories. I’m telling the story and change the narratives that Senator Abubakar Ahmad Moallayidi is one of the All Progressives Congress staunch Loyalist from Adamawa that the party is fortunate to get.
Russia’s most senior generals have dropped out of public view after a failed mercenary mutiny aimed at toppling the top military brass, amid a drive by President Vladimir Putin to reassert his authority.
Even when it is obvious that as humans, it is always convenient to forget and uncomfortable to remember, one invaluable asset the out gone 9th National Assembly left behind that will be too difficult to forget by Nigerians particularly, the people of the Niger Delta region, South South geopolitical zone of the country is the 2021 passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill, after over 17years of back and forth movement, and its subsequent signing to law by former President Muhammadu Buhari.
If there is any event in recent times that amply demonstrates that nations succeed or fail and define their essential character by the way they challenge the unknown and cope with fears, it is the Senate’s recent and final rejection on Tuesday June 6, 2023, of the controversial National Water Resources Bill, 2023 after it was listed for concurrence on the order paper for consideration and passage.