Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has attributed the decline in the value of the naira to the economic policies of the previous administration, which printed and injected N22.7 trillion into the economy. Dogara also described the foreign loan and crude oil-tied measures that sustained it as nothing short of voodoo economics….
The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has revealed that President Bola Tinubu’s renewed hope competitive reform agenda has delivered 28 Field Development Plans (FDPs) with 18.2 billion dollars worth of investment commitments in the Nigerian oil sector The Commission Chief Executive, Mr Gbenga Komolafe disclosed this on Tuesday at the Africa Oil Week, held…
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Former presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, Adewole Adebayo has highlighted three areas where President Bola Tinubu has made progress in managing Nigeria’s economy. Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday, Adebayo said: “It’s obvious that the economy that President Buhari left was a poorly managed economy, and was an emergency room…
The Presidency has stated that the ongoing government investments in infrastructure have helped lift over 10 million Nigerians out of multidimensional poverty. This was made known by the Special Adviser to the Presidency on Economic Matters, Tope Fasua in an interview with Channels on Tuesday. Fasua explained the central role of infrastructure development in addressing…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports President Bola Tinubu has returned to Abuja from Paris after concluding his vacation. The president arrived at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on Tuesday evening. He was received by Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Chief of Staff Femi Gbajabiamila, and Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi Sule, among other top…
A former presidential candidate and an activist, Omoyele Sowore, has reacted to the decision by the Department of State Services, DSS, to drag him to court. The DSS on Tuesday instituted a five-count charge at the Federal High Court in Abuja against social media platforms X, Meta (parent company of Facebook), and Sowore. The charges,…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that President Bola Tinubu will return to Abuja on Tuesday after ending his vacation ahead of schedule. Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, announced Tinubu’s early return in a statement on Monday. Tinubu left for France on September 4 to spend part of his annual holiday and…
Governor Mohammed Bago of Niger State has declared that power will return to the North after President Bola Tinubu’s second tenure. Bago urged Northerners willing to be Nigeria’s president to wait until 2031. Speaking on TVC, the governor said: “When he (President) finishes his eight years, power will come to the North and northerners, who…
Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume, have appealed to Nigerians to exercise patience with President Bola Tinubu’s administration, insisting that the economic and political reforms currently causing hardship will ultimately yield prosperity. This was disclosed in a statement issued on Sunday by the Special Assistant to…