From reforms to delivery: Our infrastructure investment and growth strategy
By Bola Tinubu Since 2023, we have made difficult but necessary decisions: removing the petrol subsidy, unifying the exchange rate, modernising the tax framework, and coordinating action on inflation. These reforms have restored macro balance, quadrupled federation revenue since 2021 and rebuilt the credibility of the State’s balance sheet. The results are now visible: real […]
What President Muhammadu Buhari (GCFR) & the APC must know!
The 37th President of the United States of America, Richard Nixon, in his nomination acceptance speech in 1968 said “let us begin by committing to the truth, to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth and live with the truth. That’s what we’ll do”.
NEDC: Another drain pipe?
ON Friday, April 9, 2019, the Senate confirmed the appointment of retired Major General Paul Tarfa and other members nominated for the board of the North East Development Commission, NEDC.
UNICEF cash transfer: What next?
QUINTESSENTIALLY, United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, which was created by the UN-General Assembly on December 11, 1946, to provide succours to underprivileged children and mothers originally in countries devastated by World War II, is extensively, in its characteristic interventions making headway, touching more lives. A two-day media dialogue on Educate-A-Child, EAC, Cash Transfer Programme in Birnin-Kebbi, Kebbi State on April 8-9, 2019 unwittingly, exposed extreme wickedness, exploitation and egotism of the ruling class against the people. Steve J. Stowell notably said, “Great leaders find ways to connect with their people and help them fulfill their potential.”
Revitalising the education sector
IT was GaunZhong (720-645 BCE), a great visionary politician in the Spring Autumn era of China, who once said that the best investment for one year is to grow grains; the best investment for ten years is to grow trees; the best investment for a lifetime is to educate people. What you gain from one year’s growth will be grains; what you gain from ten years’ growth will be trees, what you gain from a hundred years’ growth will be people.”
As the clouds melt away in Ekiti
PENULTIMATE Wednesday, April 17, 2019 the Supreme Court brought to an end the long search for electoral redemption by Segun Oni, a former governor of Ekiti State, in his bid to assert himself as a candidate in the last governorship election in the state. Following his defeat in the party primary election, the former governor had shifted in between congratulating Dr. Kayode Fayemi who emerged the clear winner and exploring legalistic loopholes to claim the top prize that he did not get during the voting.
