…Cabinet shuffle: Much motion, no movement By Steve Osuji A SPARK OF TINUBU LIGHT: Upfront: this column had long given up on President Bola Tinubu. Expresso had long determined that nothing of much value will be achieved by his administration even if he ruled for 50 years. The weekly presidency watch was disabled by the sheer ineptitude of the presidency. We found ourselves repeating same negativism arising from poor leadership; we searched in vain to find something worthy of commendation; just anything. Nothing. The Tinubu presidency kept flailing and failing.…
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FOR ONCE, TINUBU MAKES A BIT OF SENSE
…Cabinet shuffle: Much motion, no movement By Steve Osuji A SPARK OF TINUBU LIGHT: Upfront: this column had long given up on President Bola Tinubu. Expresso had long determined that nothing of much value will be achieved by his administration even if he ruled for 50 years. The weekly presidency watch was disabled by the sheer ineptitude of the presidency. We found ourselves repeating same negativism arising from poor leadership; we searched in vain to find something worthy of commendation; just anything. Nothing. The Tinubu presidency kept flailing and failing.…
Read MoreIf Souldo was doing well, I won’t have any business joining the Governorship race- LP guber aspirant, Nwosu
A Governorship aspirant of the Labour Party, LP in the 2025 Governorship election in Anambra State, Mr John Nwosu over the weekend said that he joined the race to right the wrongs of the incumbent Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo. Nwosu who addressed a team of select journalists at the Geogold hotel in Awka decried the increasing State of insecurity in the state, saying that Soludo has failed to live up to expectations. He said, if the present administrators are doing well, I won’t have any business joining the race. As…
Read MoreRivers crisis: High Court Chief Judge Tsoho to appear before NJC probe panel
The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho, will on Tuesday, October 29, appear before the probe panel of the National Judicial Council, NJC, over judgements being churned out by his court in respect of cases on the Rivers political crisis. Justice Tsoho is expected to defend the court under his watch over some petitions brought before NJC by some lawyers and litigants, mainly on Rivers’ political disputes. The chief judge is to specifically explain why the Rivers cases are being heard in Abuja instead of the…
Read MoreGeorge To CJN: Time To End Judicial Rascality Is Now
Let me congratulate you on your confirmation by the Senate and your swearing-in by President Bola Tinubu as the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). As the Number One Judicial Officer in the world’s most populous black nation, a bonafide Lagosian and a jurist from a family of legal luminaries, I strongly believe that the judiciary will benefit from your wealth of knowledge. I am also convinced that with you at the helm of affairs of the third arm of government in Nigeria, the Judiciary will now take its rightful position,…
Read MoreAmid Severe Hardship, Tinubu Should Rejig Economy, Not Just Cabinet
President Bola Tinubu recently re-assigned some of his ministers to new ministries and appointed new ones. The Nigerian president equally scrapped some ministries and created new ones. In all, the Tinubu administration hopes the rejigging of his barely one and a half year administration will help better the palpable economic situation he plunged the country into especially, with his hasty removal of petrol subsidy at the point of inauguration on May 29, 2023. To say that Nigerians have been plunged into unsolicited hardship since Tinubu made the announcement that ended…
Read MoreAHAEJIAGAMBA NDIGBO: Guild of Imo Elders, UNN Aumni, Uchehara, Akagburu, Mourns Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu
It is with great pain and to the Will of the Almighty God that I accept the transition to Glory of my political father, mentor and a great leader of outstanding personality, Chief (Dr) Engr. Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu CFR, OFR MFR, (Ahaejiagamba Ndigbo). Chief Iwuanyanwu was my role model, leader with many parts, very compassionate, easy going, inspiring and motivational with a touch of class. His exit will leave a vacuum too difficult to fill. He was everything to different individuals that came across him. As a man with unlimited contacts,…
Read MoreNLC To IMF, W/Bank: Your Policies Are Insincere, Suffocating Nigerians
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has strongly criticized the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, urging them to cease their “insincere” policy advisories that are suffocating Nigerians. This statement follows remarks made by Abebe Selassie, the IMF’s African Region Director, during a press conference at the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings in Washington, DC. Selassie characterized the Nigerian government’s decision to eliminate the fuel subsidy as a domestic matter, distancing the IMF from the resulting hardships that Nigerians are experiencing. The NLC responded with skepticism to the…
Read MoreCourts May Nullify LG Elections Conducted By State Governors – Fagbemi
Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, has cautioned that courts may nullify local government elections conducted by state governors if they failed to comply with legal requirements following the Supreme Court’s ruling on local government autonomy. Speaking at the 12th convocation of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, on Tuesday, Fagbemi emphasized that there is no truth to reports suggesting that state governors had been granted a three-month moratorium to delay the implementation of the court’s decision. The ruling ensures the financial autonomy of all 774 local…
Read MoreNigerians Suffering More Than Civil War Times- Ugorji
…Inaugurates St Mary’s Parish Amakaohia Ubi. A lot of the bizarre happenings in Nigeria’s security sector, has been linked to the excessive consumption of hard drugs by youths. This formed the central message of the Catholic Archbishop of Owerri, Most Rev. Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji, in a homily he delivered weekend, during the inauguration of St. Mary’s Catholic Parish, Amakohia-Ubi, Owerri West local council area of Imo State. His words: “It is true that there is a lot of suffering and hardship in the land. It appears that we are suffering…
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