Nigeria is considering the purchase of China’s newly-certified C919 passenger jet as it projects to grow its new national air carrier Nigeria Air to 30 planes by around 2025, Aviation Minister Hadi Sirika said on Saturday. Sirika said the new airline would have a mixture of Airbus and Boeing planes, but added the carrier is Read More…
Month: October 2022
Ruto and Falana: Brother for enslavement and brother for liberation
His Excellency William Ruto, Kenya’s newly minted President, prides himself as the Hustler-in-Chief of the country. He says he is from the “Hustler Nation” – the informal economy where he used to sell chickens for survival. However, having a dog-eat-dog street ideology as he claims, does not preclude a sense of basic human decency. It is Read More…
Not A Poisoned Chalice
Some people think that the next president of Nigeria will inherit a poisoned chalice because he (yes, he) will find out that what he thought was a throne was but a marble-coated trap programmed to de-ball. If the economic situation is as bad as many experts see it, why are so many people hell-bent on Read More…
Police break minors’ tummies bloating syndicate
The Lagos State Police Command on Saturday apprehended four men who allegedly use minors to beg for alms in Lagos traffic. SP Benjamin Hundeyin, the Commands Public Relations Officers stated this via this official Twitter handle. According to him, the men get minors from villages and then get a medical doctor to inject them with Read More…
Police arrests suspected ‘one chance’ syndicate in Lagos
A three-man syndicate that specialises in duping innocent passengers in commercial vehicles has been arrested. SP Benjamin Hundeyin, PRO for Lagos State Police Command on Saturday listed the suspects arrested to be: Abiodun Bamidele, aged 48, Olumide Faleye, aged 45 and a female suspect, Toyin Adekoya, aged 49. He said the suspects were arrested around Read More…
IPMAN advises FG to speed up full deregulation of petroleum sector
As the country marked its independence, the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), on Saturday in Abuja, pushed for the Federal Government to accelerate full deregulation of the petroleum sector to further open up the market. Speaking through its National Public Relations Officer, Alhaji Yakubu Suleiman, IPMAN said having full deregulation would help in Read More…
Ogudu: Lagos Assembly summons Lands Bureau, others over community land dispute
The Lands Bureau and the Land Grabbers Office have been summoned to appear before the Lagos State House of Assembly over a land dispute at Ogudu Community Muslim Praying Ground in Lagos. Mr. Victor Akande, Chairman, House Committee on Judiciary and Public Petition, ordered the summon at an on-the-spot Assessment of the land on Saturday in Read More…
Independence: We must not give up as a nation — NBA President
Yakubu Maikyau (SAN), President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has admonished fellow compatriots to keep hope alive for a better future. Maikyau made the call in a statement tagged: “Independence day message”, made available to newsmen in Lagos by the NBA National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Habeeb Lawal. Maikyau noted that although the nation was Read More…
Charly Boy, others lead LP 5m persons’ march for Obi in Lagos
Charles Oputa (Charly Boy) Labour Party’s (LP) popular social crusader, and other activists on Saturday, led a five million solidarity march for the LP Presidential Candidate, Mr. Peter Obi and his running mate, Sen. Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed. The march tagged: “Lagos Obi-Datti Five Million + Freedom March”, had supporters and fans of Obi converge at the National Read More…
What Does Nigeria Need from Her Next President?
Fundamentally, what does Nigeria need from her Next President? The answer is simple! Visionary leadership. I use the term visionary leadership because as a nation and for many decades we have made the mistake of confusing titles with leadership. As the statesman, diplomat, and former U.S. President John Quincy Adams once said “if your actions Read More…