Delta State’s 2025 Budget: A Mirage of Progress?
The proposed N936 billion budget for Delta State in 2025 appears impressive, but beneath the surface lies a different reality. The 29.12% increase from the current year’s budget, hailed by…
Time for Atiku Abubakar to stop his grand illusions and fantasies by Bayo Onanuga
Since his defeat in the last election, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has shown more interest in undermining President Bola Ahmed Tinubu than in addressing his party’s implosion. We…
Economy: Presidency replies Atiku, explains Tinubu’s actions
We have just read a statement credited to former vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, in which he tried to discredit President Bola Tinubu’s economic reform programmes while pushing his untested…
Yahaya Bello: Stop giving wrong impression about Tinubu, Onokpasa chides Onanuga
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress and die-hard supporter of President Bola Tinubu, Jesutega Onokpasa, has criticised a spokesperson for the President, Bayo Onanuga, for allegedly giving the wrong…
Agege, Surulere Top Lagos’ Hazardous Air Quality Index
October 23, 2024 Agege and Surulere have topped the list of areas with the most hazardous and very unhealthy air quality respectively in the state, according to a latest index…
NDLEA intercepts N22.7bn worth of opioids at Lekki, Apapa, Onne seaports
Oct 13, 2024 The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has intercepted a 32,607,900 pills of tramadol worth over N12,577,000,000 and 1,451,994 bottles of codeine-based syrup with a street value…
FRSC confirms death of Makarfi’s son in Kaduna -Zaria auto-crash
Oct. 13, 2024 The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has confirmed the death of Faisal, son of former Kaduna State Governor, Sen. Ahmed Makarfi, in an auto-crash along Kaduna-Kano highway…
Lagos Red Line passenger operations begins Oct. 15
Oct. 10, 2024 The Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) says that full passenger operations on the Lagos Rail Mass Transit Red Line will begin on October 15. The Managing…
Visa clearance: NDLEA makes letter of approval from husband to travel non-mandatory
Oct. 10, 2024 The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA says the entire procedure for visa clearance issued by the Agency as required by some countries is currently undergoing review….
Petrol price hike: NLC demands immediate reversal
Oct.9, 2024 …Says will further deepen poverty, jobs loss The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has demanded the immediate reversal of the latest increase in the pump price of petrol. It…