By Bola BOLAWOLE THOSE WHO created the T-Pain label for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu must be grinning from ear-to-ear for the phenomenal success they have recorded! Not that they said anything new or that Nigerians were not familiar with the phenomenon they graphically painted but because the Tinubu government allowed it to get under its [&hell...
By Tunde Rahman MONTHS AFTER the rumours of imminent cabinet reshuffle had filled the air with newshounds speculating which of the ministers would be dropped or retained, President Bola Tinubu eventually took the bull by the horns last Wednesday. He effected the ministerial changes, scrapping two ministries, discharging five ministers, reassig...
By Paul Ejime BIANCA ODUMEGWU-Ojukwu, the widow of ex-Biafra leader Emeka Ojukwu, was among five new ministers nominated Wednesday by President Bola Tinubu in his long-awaited cabinet shuffle, since assuming office in May 2023. Ten serving Ministers swapped positions, while five old ones were dismissed in the changes announced after a Federal ...
By Temitope Ajayi A VIDEO of former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s interview with News Central Television has been trending on social media platforms for the past week. In the interview, the former President, in a veiled reference to the current administration, said Nigeria has a President who came into office without a plan. Yet, the sam...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE THE MUCH-awaited cabinet reshuffle by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu came last Wednesday but I will be surprised if the shape and character of the reshuffle did not disappoint many. Most of the new names qualify as unknown quantities. Add this to the fact that many of the existing cabinet members were also […]
By Emeka Monye ON MONDAY, October 21st, 2024, Presidential Bola Tinubu made a policy announcement in a major cabinet reshuffle, among which was the appointment of former beauty queen, Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu as Nigeria’s Minister of state, Foreign Affairs. Mrs. Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, by routine, replaced former Women Affairs Minster, bar...
By Maxwell Adeyemi Adeleye “Obasanjo may try to rewrite history, but for those of us who lived through it, the truth will always remain clear. His administration was not a beacon of democracy but a reminder of how power intoxicates and can destroy the very foundations of a nation’s progress”-Maxwell Adeyemi Adeleye. I THANK Maxwell...
By Michael Chibuzo THIS MAN called President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is painstakingly doing an architectural redesign of Nigeria’s economic foundations. He has chosen to be the scapegoat and anyone who understands Nigeria’s structural problems should be grateful that a Bola Tinubu is President of Nigeria today. This is a President who ap...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE DR. REUBEN Abati’s “Remembering Mrs. Remi Oyo”, which I read online on Oct. 1, 2024, brought back a floodgate of memories regarding Mrs. Oluremi Oyo who passed to glory 10 years ago and whose remembrance her family held recently in Lagos. Remi and I were professional colleagues. Her easy-going husband, Mr. Vincent […...
By David Adenekan “Patience and hunger are of parallel lines. How do you reconcile the two grammatical expressions in today’s Nigeria economic hardship?” – David Adenekan. A BAG of rice is now N120k. A small plastic of beans is N7k. A crate of egg is N7k (depending on the size). 3 tubers of yam are […]
