I am one for students’ loan; it does not necessarily have to be exactly the way it has come through the Femi Gbajabiamila-sponsored bill signed into law by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu last month. For one, Tinubu rushed to sign the bill so it would not become stale. Had the 10th National Assembly been proclaimed before the bill was assented …

A stakeholder in Nigeria’s energy sector, Mr. Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim has indicated that the country may be set for a huge economic growth owing to the current financial and economic reforms by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the past one month of his ascension to power. According to reports, the new administration inherited a floundering economy with gross domestic product growth …

For the first time since Independence in 1960, Nigeria’s economy expanded slower than its population between 2015 and 2020. Nigeria’s GDP per capita declined by 0.02 per cent, 4.16 per cent and 1.78 in 2015, 2016 and 2017 respectively; in 2018, 2019 and 2020, it declined by 0.68, 0.38 and 4.57 per cent respectively. Nigeria’s annual GDP growth rate also …

Whether the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a substantive one or a “placeholder” – to deploy a new addition to Nigeria’s electoral lexicon – will be decided by the courts in the land. He was declared winner of last 25th February presidential election by the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu. Two of the …

The allegations – or do we call them the road to prosperity – that human rights activist and legal luminary, Comrade Femi Falana has forcefully pushed into the public domain in the past one or two weeks are too weighty to be ignored by the Bola Tinubu administration. It is like you have a problem and someone says not just …

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has fixed 10th and 11th July for its national caucus and National Executive Committee (NEC) meetings respectively, according to a notice on Tuesday by its National Secretary, Senator Iyiola Omisore. APC NATIONAL CAUCUS, NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (NEC) MEETINGS FIXED FOR 10TH & 11TH OF JULY, RESPECTIVELY pic.twitter.com/BBwwQytSqt — APC Nigeria (@OfficialAPCNg) June 27, 2023 Omisore said the meetings …

President Bola Tinubu arrived in Lagos from London on Tuesday evening, ahead of Wednesday’s Eid-el-Kabir celebrations. The President’s Gulfstream jet landed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, at 05:05 pm local time where he was welcomed by a waiting crowd of supporters. In the last one week, President Tinubu had been in Paris, the French capital where he attended …

On Tuesday, 13th June, 2023, I was at the University of Ibadan where I delivered a public lecture titled “The task before Nigeria’s 16th Head of State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu” at the 31st anniversary of the Resurrection Morning Star Society, Chapel of Resurrection of the university. Following is an abridged version of the lecture: “Tinubu is an enigma. To borrow …

The African Development Bank has pledged for President Bola Tinubu’s efforts and vision in improving the agriculture and power sectors in Nigeria. After a meeting with President Tinubu on the sidelines of the New Global Financing Pact summit, hosted by the French President Emmanuel Macron, in Paris, France, AfDB President, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina said that it was a great opportunity for …

The Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Saturday reacted to the criticisms from Nigerians over the photographs she took in Paris, France. Mrs. Okonjo-Oweala had posted a photograph of herself in which President Bola Tinubu was cropped out. The WTO DG had taken the photograph during the summit for ‘A New Global Financing Pact’, …