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I AM excited. After about two months in police cells and the Kuje Maximum Prison, three #EndBadGovernance protesters: Michael Lenin Adaramoye, Mosiu Sodiq and Opaluwa Eleojo, are back home. They are on bail. They join the trio of Loveth Angel, Nuradeen Khamis and Abayomi Adeyemi, earlier let out on bail.   Incredibly, they face treason […]

When President Ahmed Bola Tinubu departed for London on Wednesday last week, to spend two weeks out of his annual leave, there was hardly a whimper of disapproval. I guess this could be because in recent years, we have become accustomed to our leaders jetting out to spend time away from the country, and London […]

  The website of Nigeria High Commission in UK currently has more of the polices of the government of President Goodluck Jonathan, who left office in 2015.   The policy statements of President Bola Tinubu, who assumed office in 2023, and has visited UK for at least five times since then, are not found on […]

The Senior Staff Association of Statutory Corporations and Government-Owned Companies (SSASCGOC), an affiliate of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) representing workers of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has embarked on an indefinite strike over unresolved staff welfare concerns.   The strike, which began on Monday, October 7, 2024, centers […]

On October 5, residents of Rivers State came out to vote for the next set of representatives that will govern them at the grassroot level. It was an election that had generated a lot of controversy  before its commencement over its legitimacy, however ,the Action Peoples Party(APP) emerged victorious sweeping 22 of the 23 LGAs. […]

Following the apology tendered by General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, over his teaching on the need for tithe payment, the Catholic Church and Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, among others have said it is the right thing to do.   Director of Social Communications for the Lagos Catholic Archdiocese, Rev […]

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has conferred the nation’s second highest national honour, the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger, on the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas.    In his 64th Independence Anniversary Speech on 1 October, President Tinubu conferred the Commander of the Federal Republic( CFR) on the speaker and […]

The Federal Government says 63 items have been exempted from Value-Added Tax (VAT). Taiwo Oyedele, the Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, disclosed this in a post on X on Friday. He said the exempted items are contained in an official gazette for the ‘Value Added Tax (Modification) Order, 2024,’ […]

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye has apologised for saying any believer who does not pay tithes will not make heaven.   Tendering his apology while delivering a message at the ongoing annual national youth convention of the church going on at the RCCG Redemption City, […]

I’m no Catholic but I wish to make a confession. The headline of this article should have been one of these two: “Bobrisky: The beauty and the beast” or “Bobrisky: The lion and the jewel.” I prefer the first headline to the second for the simple reason that nothing is jewelling about the ongoing Bobrisky […]

For years, the Dangote Refinery has been hailed as a potential lifeline for Nigeria’s ailing economy. Despite its vast oil reserves, Nigeria has failed to achieve sustained economic growth and stability due to deep-rooted structural dysfunctions. A critical aspect of this failure is the country’s inability to develop a robust oil refining industry capable of […]

Justice Evelyn Maha of the Federal High Court in Abuja has issued an order barring the Directorate of Road Traffic Services, also called the Vehicle Inspection Office (VIO), from further stopping vehicles on the road, impounding or confiscating vehicles, and imposing fines on motorists.   In a judgement on Thursday, Justice Maha issued the order […]