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30 Oct

Tinubu Assures Oil Sector Stability With Naira For Crude Deal

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President Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday, commended the Implementation Committee on the Naira-based sales of crude oil and refined products and asked the members to resolve any teething problems. In a review meeting at the State House, Abuja, the President said using the Naira was conceived to remove the exchange rate hurdle. “Whatever solution we proffer in crude oil and refined products sales in Naira should not take us back to our experience in the last 40 years." “There can be cost and revenue adjustment in the oil sector, but the issue is that the government will not have to go…

11 Mar

Criticism As Nigerian State Names Airport After Tinubu

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Nigeria's central Niger state has renamed a newly renovated local airport after President Bola Tinubu, sparking criticism. The state's spokesperson Hajia Binta Mammam said the Minna International Airport was renamed in recognition of the president's development of the state. However, some Nigerians have criticised the move, questioning its economic significance. Mr Tinubu is expected in Minna, the state's capital, on Monday to commission the remodelled airport and flag off an agricultural processing zone. The airport was formerly known as Abubakar Imam International Airport, named after a Nigerian writer and journalist, who pioneered the first Hausa language newspaper in northern Nigeria.…

04 Sep

Peter Obi, Atiku’s Petitions: Nigeria Court To Deliver Judgment Challenging Election Of President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday

Evans ManassehNewsAtiku, Peter Obi, Tinubu

The Presidential Election Tribunal in Abuja will deliver judgment on petitions challenging the election of President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday, September 6. In May, the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal merged the petitions submitted by the various political parties while giving the pre-hearing report on the petition and presenting the trial schedule. FLASH: Presidential Election Tribunal to deliver judgement on Election Petition filed by Peter Obi of Labour Party and Abubakar Atiku against Bola Tinubu’s on Wednesday September 6th in Abuja. It also reserved judgment on the petitions filed by the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples…

01 Aug

BREAKING: Protest Begins In Kano As Nigerians March Against Hardship Under Tinubu’s Government

Evans ManassehNewsBREAKING: Protest Begins In Kano As Nigerians March, GOVERNMENT, Hardship, Tinubu

Nigerians have begun a “warm up” protest in Kano State over the hike of petrol price from N195 to N617, naira devaluation, school fees increment and other anti-poor policies of the President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government. Photographs of the protest obtained by SaharaReporters on Tuesday confirmed that the Joint Action Front (JAF) coordinated the demonstration. The civic organisations in a joint declaration, signed by Femi Falana (ASCAB), Baba Ayelabola (CORE), and Achike Chude (JAF) after a meeting on Sunday, which was made available to SaharaReporters on Monday, had said they would join in the protest until victory was achieved. Titled:…

31 Jul

Niger: Tinubu Has No Moral Right To Advice Coup Leaders To Immediately Release And Reinstatement Elected President – Security Expect

Evans ManassehNewsNiger, Security, Tinubu

Security expect, Richard Kumadoe denounced on the Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), President Bola Tinubu, saying he has no moral right and credibility to order the military coup leaders in Niger to immediately release and reinstate elected President Mohamed Bazoum, who has been held by the military since Wednesday. He said, "Was he declared the President of Nigeria or he's at the Supreme Court of Nigeria? look at the people talking, he doesn't have any moral right to tell coup leaders to stop what they are doing. The leader is routing from the head, what…