An Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has stated that President Bola Tinubu must probe everyone who worked under former president, Muhammadu Buhari to “vomit what they have stolen.” The cleric also claimed that if the Nigerian government failed to negotiate with bandits, the Boko Haram terrorists would soon hijack them. Gumi said this during an…
If you ask Nigerians to name past power ministers randomly, it is most likely that they will start with Bart Nnaji, the preeminent engineering professor in the United States who has for almost two decades been almost synonymous with history-changing initiatives in the Nigerian electric power sector. Nnaji left office over a decade ago. He…
By Kayode Oyero The former presidential spokesperson said Buhari removed subsidy on electricity, fertilizer. Hajj/Christian Pilgrim, diesel, aviation fuel, kerosene, amongst others. Garba Shehu, a former spokesperson for ex-President Muhammadu Buhari has explained that the former Nigerian leader put petrol subsidy removal and the unification of the country’s foreign exchange rates on hold “for a…
A South African businessman, Johann Rupert, has displaced Nigerian billionaire and founder of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote as Africa’s richest man as a result of the depreciation of the Naira. Rupert currently boasts a $12 billion net worth according to Forbes Magazine in its Real-time global Billionaires Ranking while Dangote’s net worth is put…
@global square, 18th June 2023. The Electoral Act 2022 introduced some novel inventions. Principal amongst them is the electronic transfer of election results from the polling units in real time on election day to the INEC database or back end server or National Electronic Register of Election Results, and the uploading of the scanned hardcopies…
Ms Ijeoma Osamor, a broadcast journalist with DAAR Communications Plc, testified on Friday at the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC). Osamor, who anchors the programme “Democracy Today” on Africa Independent Television (AIT) was subpoenaed as the 7th witness (PW 7) for Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP). Obi and LP are petitioners in the…
The Enugu State Stakeholders Forum (ESSF) has ascribed the failure of the state government’s cancellation of the Monday sit-at-home order to the lack of legitimacy by the new Peter Mbah government that came into being last May 29. In a statement in Enugu today signed by the ESSF’s leader, Professor Joseph Aneke, and the secretary,…
Former Vice President Mike Pence announced that he’s running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination as he delivered his toughest takedown to date of primary rival and former boss Donald Trump, who he said “should never” be president again for his actions in the aftermath of the 2020 election. At his formal campaign kickoff in…
Governor of Enugu State, Dr. Peter Mbah, on Thursday, met with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over issues he said we’re pertinent to the people of the state. Briefing Presidential Villa correspondents after the meeting, Mbah, who described the meeting as heartwarming, said partnership and collaboration with the federal government was critical to actualising his administration’s…
The Network of Evangelical Bishops of Nigeria (NEBN), South East Chapter has again asked Enugu State Governor, Peter Mbah to resign, saying he has brought disgrace to the state. This is the third time in as many months the NEBN has intervened in Enugu public affairs, advising Mbah to throw in the towel for both…
