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 […]
Neglecting Lagos
There are numerous examples of old capitals but none was abandoned by the central government, except of course, Nigeria.
On August 7, 1975, the then Head of State, General Murtala Ramat Mohammed (1938-1976) inaugurated a five man panel on the creation of more states in the country. The committee was headed by Justice Ayo Gabriel Irikefe (1922-1996). It was the panel that increased the number of states in Nigeria from twelve (12) to nineteen (19). Justice Irikefe later became the ninth Chief Justice of the Federation between (1985-1987).
Urhobos,Okowa and 2015
SOME years back, I wrote a piece titled “The Dilemma of the Urhobos.” This was right before the 2013 Delta Central Senatorial By-election and after my return from America. The outcome of the election brought Urhobos back to the majority ruling party of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Subsequent to that, Dr. Steve Oru was also appointed as the Minister for Niger-delta Affairs.
When OBJ became Buhari’s forerunner
I HAVE always been one of those who pooh-poohed former Vice President Atiku Abubakar anytime he sought to curry public sympathy over the manner in which his former boss, Olusegun Obasanjo, harassed him with investigations, in desperate bids to shoot down his political career.
But like Malam Nuhu Ribadu, I guess I have to apologise to Atiku, not because I think he is clean as a whistle as he wants us to believe, but because I now believe that his former boss was unfair to him.
Tarzoor: Return of the native
SINCE 1999, Benue State has been a core PDP state. The people always cast their vote en mass in all elections for the largest political party in Africa. Indeed it was in recognition of this that Benue State had produced two national chairmen of PDP and other sensitive positions in the party’s apparatchik.
The change we need
UP until the mid eighties, the million was seen as an almost invincible attainment. A judge of the calibrer of Ovie Whiskey, who had served many years on the Bench and reached the peak of his career as a Chief Judge of the entire Bendel state, claimed thus; “If I see a million naira cash, I will faint”. That shows the value to which money was placed in the good old days.
