Author: Alade Adisa

The world watches with bated breath as Americans vote for their next president in a general election that is underway across the nation. Widely perceived as the world’s most powerful nation, and leading democracy, it is unsurprising that all nations, states, organizations, and personalities, whether political, government, or private, will be monitoring the blow-by-blow, minute-by-minute goings-on in the election that could decide the fate of the whole world for the next four years.And, once polls close, depending on how close the contest is, it is possible a winner will not be projected for several hours, days, or even weeks. Here’s…

After facing a barrage of criticism from Nigerians over the non-disclosure of its petrol prices, and claims made by IPMAN, PETROAN, and other associations regarding the import and pricing of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), Dangote Refinery has addressed the issues.In a statement released Sunday night and signed by the Group Chief Branding and Communications Officer, Anthony Chiejina, Dangote Refinery noted that it followed the pricing benchmark by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), adding that it went lower in pricing for selling into ships.The company revealed that its PMS prices align with international standards, suggesting that any competitor claiming…

To further reduce the cost of governance in Nigeria, a coalition of civil societies in Osun State, The Osun Masterminds (TOM), has urged President Bola Tinubu and state governors to reduce their convoys.Arguing that reducing the number of convoys for only the ministers is not enough to reduce the cost of governance, the group also charged the president and governors with reducing travel expenses to help Nigerians through the present hardship.In a statement by its Executive Director, Professor Wasiu Oyedokun-Alli, the group said the President’s instruction to Ministers to reduce their convoys to three vehicles would not effectively reduce the…

The Presidency has ripped into the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, saying that the former Vice President would have plunged Nigeria into a worse economic situation if he had won the 2023 presidential election. The presidency in a statement in Abuja, titled, “Our initial response to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar,” which was signed by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, accused Atiku of supervising what it described as a questionable privatisation programme. It said that the former vice president and his principal, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo ”demonstrated a total lack of…

The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris has said President Bola Tinubu is committed to alleviating the suffering of Nigerians. The minister spoke on Sunday in Kaduna when he featured in a live phone-in programme of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), Hausa Service, Kaduna, “Hannu Da Yawa.” Speaking on the hardship caused by the fuel subsidy removal, Idris said the subsidy was only benefiting a few people at the expense of all Nigerians. He assured that the economy would be stable, adding that no government would want backwardness in its administration. The minister emphasized that what…

The Nigeria Police Force has arrested 130 suspects comprising 113 foreign nationals for their alleged involvement in high-level cybercrimes, hacking, and activities that threaten national security. The suspects consist of 87 males and 26 females, primarily of Chinese and Malaysian origin, and their 17 Nigerian collaborators, made up of four males and 13 females. Disclosing this in Abuja on Sunday, Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Muyiwa Adejobi, in a statement said the operation was conducted the the Police Zonal Command headquarters, Zone 7 led by AIG Benneth Igweh and the CP in charge NPF National Cybercrimes Centre, CP Ifeanyi Henry…

How we would have approached Nigeria’s problems – Atiku Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has outlined what he would have done differently from President Bola Tinubu if he was the president. Atiku, who was the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election, highlighted many measures he would have put in place to tackle the numerous socio-economic problems confronting Nigeria. The Nigeria’s former number 2 man said this in a statement titled: “What We would Have Done Differently”, which he signed and made available to newsmen in Abuja, on Sunday. According to him, he wrote the…

The crisis ravaging the Labour party has reared its head as the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) won 15 of the 17 chairmanship positions in the Abia local government elections. In the election that held on Saturday, the Young Progressives Party (YPP) secured victory in the remaining two LGAs. The development left the Labour Party, the political party of incumbent governor, Alex Otti, with no council. Chairman of the Abia State Independent Electoral Commission (ABSIEC), George Chima, announced the results at the commission’s headquarters in Umuahia, the state capital. NAN quoted Chima as saying, “We have carried out the duty we…

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have busted an international drug syndicate operating between Brazil Ethiopia and Nigeria by thwarting a bid to smuggle 845 wraps of cocaine weighing 18.72 kilograms into Lagos. The agency disclosed that the consignments were recovered in an operation at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja. Femi Babafemi, spokesman of NDLEA said, “The drug consignments worth four billion four hundred and ninety-two million eight hundred thousand Naira (N4,492,800,000) in street value were recovered from two lavatories of an Ethiopian Airlines aircraft during the post landing cleaning of the cabin of flight ET900 from Addis…