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The Federal Government said yesterday it was ready to engage the governments of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger Republic, so the people of the West African countries can continue to enjoy the economic benefits and democratic values in the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS. The government’s declaration came yesterday as international affairs experts, […]

The military regimes in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger announced Sunday their immediate withdrawal from the West African bloc ECOWAS. The leaders of the three Sahel nations issued a statement saying it was a “sovereign decision” to leave the Economic Community of West African States “without delay”. Struggling with jihadist violence and poverty, the regimes

Comrade Joe Ajaero, the National President of the National Labour Congress (NLC), has issued a scathing critique of the current administration’s economic policies, decrying the impact of recent reforms on the average Nigerian citizen. Speaking at the 21st Edition of the Daily Trust Dialogue organized by Media Trust Limited in Abuja on Thursday, Ajaero highlighted

A combo of Gov Lucky Aiyedatiwa and Nominated Ondo Deputy Governor Olayide Owolabi Adelami. Ondo State Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has announced the selection of Olayide Owolabi Adelami for the position of Deputy Governor. Adelami, who hails from Owo, the hometown of the late Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, is a former Deputy Clerk of the National Assembly.

The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams, has identified restructuring as the solution to the problem of insecurity in Nigeria. Speaking in Lagos during the celebration of his 6th installation anniversary, last weekend, Adams expressed his determination to strengthen the bond of unity and peace in Yorubaland. He said his position as the generalissimo

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has raised alarm over plans to disrupt the February 3 re-run and bye-elections in parts of the country. Yakubu raised the alarm on Tuesday in Abuja at the first quarterly meeting of the Interagency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES). “From experience, the

Findings have shown that about $18 billion representing 90 percent of the estimated $20 billion Nigeria’s diaspora remittances in 2023 did not end up in the country, Taiwo Oyedele, Chairman, Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, has said. Recall that the World Bank had estimated that diaspora remittances to Nigeria in 2023 was

Outrage yesterday trailed Northern senators’ position on the relocation of federal agencies to Lagos from Abuja. The senators had, aside from expressing angst against relocation of the agencies, also protested what they described as lopsided allocation between the North and South in the 2024 budget, arguing that the development was designed to further under-develop the

The Dangote Petroleum Refinery is to supply fuel to about 150,000 retail outlets operated by the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria following a meeting between the management of the refinery and executives of IPMAN. Last week Monday, it was exclusively reported that IPMAN had scheduled a meeting with the management of Dangote refinery as

President Bola Tinubu is starting to look like a poor economic manager as widespread scepticism sweeps across the economy less than a month into a year, a situation many pointed to as a turning point in the failing economy. If the current administration fails in its promise to reverse the downward macroeconomic trend to give