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Despite President Bola Tinubu’s June announcement suspending import duties and tariffs on essential food items for six months, Nigerian importers claim they are still being forced to pay these fees.   The presidential directive aimed to curb soaring prices of food, raw materials, and manufacturing inputs, and also covered agricultural production inputs like fertilizers and pesticides, pharmaceuticals, poultry feed, flour, and grains.   However, importers say the suspension has not been implemented, contradicting the Executive...

  Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka has said that President Bola Tinubu’s nationwide address on Sunday failed to address the attacks on #EndBadGovernance protesters by security agencies. Soyinka made the observation in a statement on Sunday following Tinubu’s address to the nation. The #EndBadGovernance protests continued on Sunday, marking their fourth day, as demonstrators voiced their frustrations over the country’s deepening economic hardship, escalating poverty, and ineffective governance.   Soyinka said, “I set my alarm...

President Bola Tinubu on Monday gave an executive order to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited to sell crude to Dangote Refinery and other upcoming indigenous refineries in naira, the country’s currency. This was announced by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Publicity, Bayo Onanuga on X, explaining that the order is aimed at achieving stability of the pump price of refined fuel and the dollar-naira exchange rate.   Bayo said...

A notorious terrorist Mohammed Bello Turji Kachalla, popularly known as Turji, has reiterated his accusation that the current Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, supports terrorism in Nigeria’s Northwest region.  In a recent video, Turji alleged that Matawalle, the immediate former governor of Zamfara State, has ties to bandits.   In August 2023, President Bola Tinubu announced the appointment of Matawalle, the former Zamfara state governor, as the Minister of State for Defence.  ...

Nigerian Army officers who joined the Armed Forces after university education face a looming mass exodus following the proposed Revised Harmonised Terms and Conditions of Service (HTACOS) 2024, which is awaiting President Bola Tinubu’s approval.   Aggrieved officers warn that if the document is approved, it will frustrate them out of service due to prolonged stays on ranks.   The document, reviewed by LEADERSHIP, reveals that military authorities are contemplating a policy change that would...

  Former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, has described N15.6 trillion for the 700km Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway as “wasteful and a highway to fraud.”    The former Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general election, insisted that the award of the Lagos-Calabar Highway Project did not meet the minimum threshold of due process.   SaharaReporters had reported Umahi, while featuring on Channels Television’s Morning programme on Thursday, said that the Lagos-Calabar...

Tinubu’s Spokesman, Rahman Bags MBA In Foreign Varsity

Tunde Rahman, the media aide to All Progressives Congress (APC) President-elect Bola Tinubu, has earned an MBA from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. His first master’s degree was in communications from Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo. Mr Rahman stated earlier this week on Facebook that it took him three years to complete because he had to balance studies and work. “After 3 years of painstaking efforts–glancing through materials on Leicester Blackboard in...

Breaking: Action Alliance withdraws petition against Tinubu’s victory

The Action Alliance (AA) and its Presidential candidate, Solomon David Okanigbuan, withdrew their Petition challenging Bola Tinubu’s declaration as the winner of the February 25 presidential election on Monday. At the start of the pre-hearing session of the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja, counsel for the petitioners, Oba Maduabuchi (SAN), moved for the petition to be withdrawn. “We have a motion filed on May 3 seeking an order of the court for the withdrawal...

Tinubu’s cabinet: I’m not lobbying to become Chief of Staff — el-Rufai

Gov. Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has denied rumours that he is vying for the position of Chief of Staff in President-elect Sen. Bola Tinubu’s cabinet. El-Rufai stated this to reporters in Gombe on Saturday. According to reports, El-Rufai was in the state to dedicate 550 housing units and the Gombe Geographic Information Systems (GOGIS) Service Centre. He called the reports on the various portfolios assigned to him that were published in national dailies “mere...

On May 8, Tribunal begin hearing petitions challenging Tinubu’s election

The Presidential Election Petitions Court, sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, has scheduled a pre-hearing on Monday, May 8, to hear petitions challenging President-elect Bola Tinubu’s victory. Prof Yakubu Mahmood, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), declared the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential candidate the winner of the February 25 presidential election on March 1. A reliable source at the Presidential Election Petition Court registry in Abuja confirmed the date for...