When Nigerian President Bola Tinubu recently inaugurated his extensive cabinet of forty-seven ministers, the media largely scrutinized the cabinet's size, criticizing it as out of touch with the economic hardships faced by ordinary Nigerians. However, amidst this focus on numbers, two noteworthy incidents involving the newly appointed Ministers of Steel Development and Tourism unfolded. Minister |
There have been so much hues and cries amongst some Nigerians and public commentators about the exclusion of Nigeria from the recent BRICS conference hosted by South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, despite its previous position as Africa’s leading economy. This has sparked debates among analysts who hold different views about the development. The conference which |
For the past eight years, the joke among Abuja residents was, “When will President Buhari appoint a Minister for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)?”. The once pristine city has gradually been reduced to a vast slum as mountains of garbage dot many areas. Even maintaining streetlights, including on the airport expressroad, has proved difficult for |
It was not meant to be this way. But like a good number of things Nigerian, the story is hardly complete without a twist in the tale. And so it has been for at least three years now with the story of the gas car that was supposed to lessen, if not end, Nigerians’ petrol |
Nigerian citizens who may not have fully followed the tense political situation in neighbouring Niger may have been misled into thinking that for once, their federal legislators are no longer disposed to playing their rubber-stamp role towards the executive branch of government. But we can hardly know if they are really set to act as |