Day: May 2, 2021

2023 Presidency: Obasanjo backs AfDB Akinwunmi Adesina over Tinubu – Report

Gbenga Adeoti

  Nigeria’s Former President Olusegun Obasanjo is in support of a move to draft the current President of the African Development Bank, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, into the 2023 presidential race, a report by Vanguard showed on Sunday, quoting competent source close to the former President to have confirmed the news last night. The move comes as the former Head of State reportedly failed to convince Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State and former Rabiu Kwankwanso of Kano State to work together in order to advance political interest of the Peoples…

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Nigerian Power Consumers read riot act to NERC, Discos on fresh tariff hike

Gbenga Adeoti

  Groups of consumers mobilise against hike they describe as Illegal, unjustifiable, insist Nigerians even deserve electricity supply on credits, not tariff hike, to ameliorate their plights   Electricity consumers in Nigeria on Sunday “outrightly rejected” plans by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to review electricity tariffs for the 11 power Distribution Companies (DisCos), expected to lead to hike in the unit cost of power. The read riot act to NERC and DisCos to think of the consequence of such actions before embarking on it. Rising under two groups…

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How Hoodlums Set INEC Office Ablaze, Burnt 345 Ballot Boxes, 135 Cubicles

Precious Ibekwe

  Without any election going on, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Local Government Office in Essien Udim Local Government Area in Akwa Ibom State, Southsouth Nigeria, was on Sunday set on fire. This ugly news was disclosed in a statement issued on Sunday by the National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Barr. Festus Okoye. The statement said the security guard at the INEC office escaped unhurt, adding that the building and properties were destroyed. INEC, however, revealed that an investigation by the police into the incident has commenced. The statement…

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Union Kicks Against `One-Man-Show’ in Nigeria’s Aviation Governance

Tade Salako

  The National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE), has identified what it called a “one-man-show’’ as the bane of the aviation sector in the country. Comrade Ben Nnabue, the National President of NUATE, made the remark in his May Day address, on Saturday in Lagos. Nnabue said the union had persistently pointed out “the folly of one-man-show in the governance of the sector’’, adding that there had never been governing boards for agencies under aviation. According to him, with the minister being the chairman of all the so-called Interim Boards, the affairs of…

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