Tinubu Orders Forensic Audit of MDAs Over Fake Agencies
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has ordered a comprehensive forensic audit of Federal Government payroll systems and agencies following disturbing findings of ghost workers, payroll fraud and “fake agencies”. The President…
Atiku Says He Has Evidence Tinubu Is 90
Former Vice President and African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has claimed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is 90 years old, despite the president’s publicly documented date of…
Subsidy or CNG? Tinubu’s October Transport Promise Faces the Street Test
For more than three years, Nigerians have been told to endure the pain of petrol subsidy removal in the hope that tomorrow would be better. Now, tomorrow has been given…
Fresh US Deportation List: 10 Nigerians Named in Trump’s ‘Worst of the Worst’ Register
The United States has named 10 more Nigerians in a fresh update to its controversial “Worst of the Worst” register, placing them among foreign nationals arrested by immigration authorities over…
APC’S “CHANGE”: Nigerians Are Paying The Price
They came to Nigerians with a simple message: “Change!” Change from insecurity.Change from corruption.Change from poverty.Change from bad governance.Change from everything they said the previous government was doing wrong. They…
Atiku to Tinubu: Your N600bn Cash-Transfer Arithmetic Doesn’t Add Up
Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, has questioned the arithmetic behind the Bola Tinubu administration’s claim that more than N600 billion has been disbursed in cash…
Gusau Resigns as Tinubu Orders Overhaul of Nigerian Football
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has ordered a comprehensive reform of Nigerian football following a string of disappointing results and the resignation of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) President Ibrahim Gusau and…
2027: Atiku, Tinubu Clash Over Fuel Subsidy, $16bn Power Spending
The political battle ahead of Nigeria’s 2027 presidential election is taking shape around two increasingly contentious issues: the removal of petrol subsidy and the long-running controversy over power-sector spending during…
Weaponising poverty
A group of heartless carpetbaggers have captured the Nigerian state, and it appears that they, their biological and political descendants, will hold the levers of government and access to Nigeria’s…
Rich states, broke people
Lagos alone is worth more than Botswana, Namibia, Rwanda and Mauritius combined. Let that sink in. With an economy of N41.17tn — about $102bn in 2021 — Lagos State dwarfed…