The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has expressed its regrets that the region voted for President Bola Tinubu in the 2023 general elections. Of the three leading candidates in the 2023 presidential election, Tinubu, who ran on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), polled the highest votes from the region. In an interview with Guardian on Tuesday, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, spokesman of the forum, said going forward, the region would prioritise unity...
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Electricity Tariff Hike: Tinubu Government Must Face Consequences – Nigerian Labour Congress
1 year ago12611 min
The Nigerian government, on Friday, insisted on the 240 per cent hike in tariff payable by power consumers in the band ‘A’ category despite calls for its reversal. It also revealed that the subsidised power pricing regime would be for the short term, with a transition plan to achieve a full cost-reflective tariff within a period of three years. However, the decision did not go down well with the Nigeria Labour Congress, which...
SERAP To Sue Tinubu Government Over Electricity Tariff Hike, Calls For Reversal Pending Court Hearing
1 year ago1264 min
SaharaReporters earlier reported that the Nigerian government had approved N225 ($0.15) per kilowatt-hour tariff increment for Band A electricity consumers in the country. The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has said it is suing President Bola Tinubu’s administration over the arbitrary increase in electricity tariff. SaharaReporters earlier reported that the Nigerian government had approved N225 ($0.15) per kilowatt-hour tariff increment for Band A electricity consumers in the country. Band A are those who enjoy...
BREAKING: Tinubu Government Raises Electricity Tariff For Nigerians From N66 To N225 Kilowatt Per Hour
1 year ago1133 min
According to Oseni, customers in Band A who are those who enjoy 20 hours of electricity supply daily represent 15 percent of the 12million electricity customers in Nigeria. The President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government has approved N225 ($0.15) per kilowatt-hour tariff increment for Band A electricity consumers in the country. The Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Musliu Oseni, who made this known at a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday...
Tinubu Reportedly Directs Sale Of Three Presidential Jets Over Cost Of Maintenance
1 year ago1387 min
Three jets in the Presidential Air Fleet (PAF) are to be sold off to cut down on the bloated cost of running the government. According to The Nation, there are 10 aircraft currently in the presidential fleet – six jets and four helicopters – which will be cut to seven if the planned action sails through. According to the report, this is part of the cost-saving measures being adopted by President Bola Tinubu’s administration. Not...
Your Integrity Intact; People Alleging N3.7Billion Budget Padding Didn’t Understand The Arithmetic, Tinubu Tells Senators
1 year ago1943 min
The President while hosting the lawmakers at the State House in Abuja for Ramadan Iftar (breaking of Muslim fast) on Thursday claimed that those spreading the allegation of irregularities in the budget legislative process are not properly informed. President Bola Tinubu has reacted to the alleged padding of the 2024 Appropriations Act by the members of the Nigerian Senate. The President while hosting the lawmakers at the State House in Abuja for Ramadan Iftar (breaking...
General Laka, whose appointment was announced by the Presidency Tuesday had served in the North East and Sierra Leone. President Bola Tinubu has appointed Major-General Adamu Garba Laka as the Coordinator of the National Counter-Terrorism Centre, under the Office of the National Security Adviser. General Laka, whose appointment was announced by the Presidency Tuesday had served in the North East and Sierra Leone. He also served in the United Nations Organization Stabilization...
Tinubu meets oil marketers, directs NEC to work on interventions for fuel subsidy removal
2 years ago1202 min
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu met with major oil marketers on Wednesday at the Presidential Villa’s Council Chambers in Abuja. Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, a former Chairman of the Oil Marketers Association, led them to the meeting. The President’s meeting with the oil marketers came as the price of petrol at the pump rose due to the removal of a subsidy on the product. President Bola Tinubu announced the removal of petrol subsidy payments...
President Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC), and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) objected on Wednesday to the admission of some documents sought to be tendered in evidence by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku. At the resumed hearing of Atiku and the PDP’s petition challenging President Tinubu’s election at the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja, counsel to the petitioners, Mr Chris Uche, SAN, said the team had...
Aloy Ejimakor, Special Counsel to IPOB Leader Nnamdi Kanu, has urged President Bola Tinubu not to inherit former President Muhammadu Buhari’s flagrant violation of the rule of law. This statement was made by Ejimakor on Twitter on Monday, shortly after Tinubu was sworn in as President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Kanu’s lawyer asked Tinubu urgently to release the IPOB leader from the custody of the Department of...