The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has vowed to remove the controversial fuel subsidy if elected as president in 2023. Nigeria’s petrol subsidy as of 2021 cost around $4.5bn, or roughly two percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The reported figure exceeds the Nigeria’s Government’s spending on health, education, and social…
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi has submitted that Nigeria must not vote along ethnic, religious or other sentimental lines in the 2023 presidential election. Obi who spoke on Wednesday during a TV interview stated that such sentiments have led the country into the current pitiable state in which it has found…
The Minister of Environment, Mohammed Abdullahi, and the Management of Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) have been summoned over the failure to clean up Ogoni land. The National Assembly Joint Panel on host communities summoned the minister and the management of HYPREP over the failure to clean up Ogoni despite payment of $1 billion for…
Doyin Okupe, a Labour Party vice presidential placeholder, questioned why people are coming together to lie and attack the person whom they claimed to not have structures and whose followers exist only on social media. Nigerians have started campaigning for and supporting their preferred candidate ahead of the 2023 presidential election. However, many of the…
The Lagos State Government has fired a customary court member, Mr Ishola Razaki Adeyemi, who in 2015 allegedly dissolved a marriage and married the wife of the complainant, Mr. Olayemi Ayeni. Ayeni, in a 2016 video which recently went viral, claimed Adeyemi dissolved his and his wife’s union and denied him access to his children….
Enugu journalist, Raymond Okechukwu Ugwu of Daily Star news picks Labour Party House of Assembly ticket for Enugu East Rural Constituency ahead of 2023, urges Ndi Enugu to embrace the party. Okechukwu Ugwu has enjoyed Ndi Enugu to embrace the party as the only credible alternative in the state come 2023. He charged the electorates…
…Reiterates support for indigenous companies …As automobile firm donates sample vehicle to government The Enugu State government has expressed delight at the commitment of Ingrace Group in promoting indigenously manufactured vehicles in Nigeria. Speaking when a delegation from Ingrace Motors Nigeria Limited, led by its Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Chinedu Onu, displayed the company’s…
In most advanced societies, the direction of voting is almost always circumstantial. The socio-economic-cum-political situation of the State/Country motivates the direction of public voting. In the 1980’s in the US election, Ronald Reagan swept away the incumbent Jimmy Carter in a groundswell of support to clinch the Presidency largely because the economy was in trouble,…
… Swears-in Women’s Commissioner, Perm Sec… Inaugurates Poly’s governing council Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, on Monday in Maiduguri, inaugurated two committees, one to manage repatriation of refugees from neighbouring countries and also manage issues of repentant insurgents. Another committee is to facilitate the safe and dignified resettlement of displaced citizens back to…
The Presidential candidate of the Labor Party, Mr. Peter Obi has reacted to the comments of Mr. Rabiu Kwankwaso alleging that the North will not support any candidate from Southeast. Peter Obi during an interview at ‘Arise TV Morning Show’ today, Wednesday, July 6, 2022. Obi said: “The comments from Kwankwaso are the reasons why…
