By Terhemba Daka, Abuja Former President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, broke his silence on the petrol subsidy removal ‘challenge’ he left for his successor, saying, had the policy been implemented, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Bola Tinubu would have lost the election. In a statement through his former spokesman, Garba Shehu, Buhari, however, commended steps by…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the immediate retirement of all Service Chiefs and the Inspector-General of Police, advisers, and Comptroller-General of Customs from service as well as their replacements with immediate effect. A statement by Willie Bassey Director, Information, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and obtained by DAILY POST…
Leader of the Niger Delta Volunteer Force NDVF, and former Niger Delta agitator, Alhaji Asari Dokubu, Friday, said over 99 per cent of oil theft in the country was carried out by the army and navy. Dokubo made the allegation after meeting behind closed doors with President Bola Tinubu, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu (BAT) has inaugurated the National Economic Council (NEC) which is headed by the Vice President, H.E Kashim Shettima. According to a video shared by the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Media Centre on Twitter on Thursday, Tinubu inaugurated the NEC at the presidential villa in Abuja. Tinubu had last week directed the NEC…
President Bola Tinubu has suspended the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, from office. The indefinite suspension was announced in a terse statement released Wednesday night by the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF). The statement signed by Willie Bassey, Director of Information at the SGF’s office, added that…
The National Bureau of Statistics ( NBS ), says prices of food items such as tomatoes, beans and yams witnessed increases in April. In its Selected Food Prices Watch Report for April, which was released on Saturday in Abuja, it made the claim. According to the report, the average cost of 1 kg of tomatoes…
President Bola Tinubu, on Friday, received in audience the former Governor of Delta State, James Ibori; a former Rivers State governor Nyesom Wike and the Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde at the State House. The three men came together at about 4.20 pm and were seen walking to the President’s office for the meeting. Even though…
Former lawmaker, Shehu Sani has urged President Bola Tinubu to keep aside party solidarity and tell the country the truth about what he inherited from erstwhile President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. Sani claimed it was unfair to ask poor Nigerians to make sacrifices without knowledge of details of what happened under the last administration. The social…
Bayo Onanuga, a former spokesman to President Bola Tinubu, has declared that the Nigerian Government is “virtually broke.” Onanuga made the remark while stressing that the subsidy on fuel is no longer sustainable. To this end, Onanuga urged Nigerian workers to support Tinubu as he develops incentives to cushion the effect of fuel subsidy removal….
Small and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria face several challenges. Among these is their inability to access affordable energy to run their operations. Power from the national grid remains insufficient while the cost of alternative energy sources like diesel and petrol has gone up significantly in recent years. Background story Earlier in the week, the…
