Author: Olabanji Ayoola

Nigeria should end its expensive fuel subsidy regime within three to six months, the World Bank said on Tuesday. Reuters reported that the bank advised that the removal of the subsidy must be accompanied by “aggressive reform effort” that “could contribute more to growth than a sustained period of high oil prices.” Africa’s largest economy […]

Says too many gaps, errors, omissions in report render it hoax It’s nothing but triumph of fake news, intimidation of silent majority by a vociferous lynch mob It ignored 57 Nigerians, 37 policemen and 6 soldiers killed during EndSARs protests Information and Culture minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Tuesday, dismissed as a sham, the report […]

President Muhammadu Buhari presenting the budget to the National Assembly The Senate Committee on Environment, yesterday, said it had discovered some N16 billion included in the 2022 budget of the Ministry of Environment for servicing of debts believed to have been collected by state governments. Chairman of the panel, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, made the revelation […]

Africa’s trailblazing Nobel laureate in literature, Prof. Wole Soyinka, yesterday, said Nigeria has reached a stage “where a series of town hall meetings should be organised to ask ourselves retrospective questions about what has happened to us.” Speaking during the presentation and discussion of his book, ‘Chronicles From the Land of The Happiest People on […]

I won’t resign, says Lai Mohammed The Federal Government has rejected the report of the panel on #EndSARS protest in Lagos. It insisted that there was no massacre in Lekki Toll Gate. It said the report in circulation does not justify any massacre at the toll gate. It faulted the alleged notion that soldiers and […]