Your views not representative of leadership’s stance, says spokesman NWC ‘timid onlooker, distant observer’, Lukman insists ALL Progressives Congress (APC) has said a statement credited to the party’s national vice chairman (North West), Dr. Salihu Lukman, as regards the chairmanship position, was his personal view and did not represent the stance of the APC. The […]
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Concerned parents of Unity College students in the country have called on the Federal Government to revisit the sudden increase in fees for their children, in a bid to make education accessible to all. The parents made the call in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Lagos. The Federal […]
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Says it’s ridiculous, embarrassing The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has condemned the planned increment of school fees by tertiary institutions in the country, and demanded the suspension of the increase in fees. In a statement signed by the National Public Relations Officer, Giwa Temitope and released yesterday, NANS declared that the government’s action […]
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The Federal Government’s afterthought on giving palliatives to douse the biting inflation and other realities of the fuel subsidy removal is getting even more controversial than the era of prodigal spending on petrol, Kehinde Olatunji reports: President Bola Tinubu’s U-turn on the proposed N8,000 monthly palliative for 12 million vulnerable households didn’t come as a […]
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• There should be life after retirement, Azinge says • Judicial reform needs to be prioritised, by Oguche Reactions have continued to trail President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s assent to the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria, (Fifth Alteration Act, No.37) 2023, which raised the retirement age of lower court judges by five years. The law, which was […]
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The move to rehabilitate criminals into better citizens, which was one of the motives for rechristening prisons as correctional service centres, seems to have been blighted by failure to properly overhaul the critical service and its personnel, Yetunde Ayobami Ojo reports: After four years Nigerian Prisons Service changed its name to the Nigerian Correctional Service […]
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President Bola Tinubu (Photo by KOLA SULAIMON/AFP) What could be the centerpiece of President Bola Tinubu’s fiscal regime is gradually taking shape with a committee on tax reform inaugurated. The Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms headed by a renowned tax expert, Taiwo Oyedele, intends to work out the removal of all barriers […]
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Southeast governors Ex-governors fail as successors struggle with law and order By 9th August, this year, it would have been 730 days since the South-east region began to observe the weekly sit-at-home exercise as declared by proponents of the separatist state of Biafra, to press for the release of the detained leader of the Indigenous […]
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By Banji Ayoola A lawyer and human rights activist, Mr. Kayode Ajulo has criticised a video clip showing the state of health of the recuperating Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu as a violation of the governor’s privacy, dignity and integrity. The said video clip which immediately went viral at the weekend was posted in commoration […]
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By Festus Adedayo Initial applauses from Bretton Woods and some local economists that greeted the economic reforms of the Bola Tinubu presidency were deafening. The reforms were termed bold and courageous. The most surgically painful of them, which drilled deep down into the marrows of Nigerians, was the removal of fuel subsidy. In a country […]
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