By Ayomide Otitoju Oyene highlighted the failure of legislators to fulfil their constitutional responsibilities, citing their focus on self-enrichment. “Legislators were preoccupied with determining their salary scales, fringe benefits, and unnecessary foreign travels,” he stated. This lack of financial discipline, according to Oyeneyin has led Nigeria to rely heavily on both internal and external borrowing…
Oyedele, chairman of the Presidential Taskforce on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms Committee, suggested on Channels Television’s Politics Today that Nigeria should exempt vulnerable and poor people from taxes. He criticized the current system for taxing everyone indiscriminately, including small vendors and market traders who struggle to make a daily living. Oyedele highlighted that excessive…
In a post on his X handle on Saturday, Peter Obi criticized the Nigerian government for implementing four national budgets simultaneously, calling it a blatant disregard for fiscal responsibility, transparency, and accountability. The former Anambra State Governor stated that this approach would result in frivolous items in the budgets competing with essential projects for limited…
According to a survivor, the first bomber was carrying a baby on her back when she detonated the IED at a wedding venue in Tashan Mararaba, near the Fire Service in Gwoza town, on Saturday. The bomber, a young mother in her twenties, posed as a guest. During the burial of the victims, a second…
The situation in Gaza has escalated as Israeli forces intensify their operations in the Shujayea neighborhood east of Gaza City The Israeli military reports heavy fighting both above and below ground, claiming to have eliminated a large number of militants and discovered a weapons storage facility in a school compound. The air force has targeted…
Biden’s appearance at a campaign rally in the battleground state of North Carolina came amid rumblings in his alarmed Democratic Party about replacing the 81-year-old as their nominee and shortly before the nation’s most influential newspaper urged him to step aside. “I don’t walk as easy as I used to. I don’t speak as smoothly…
Senegal became the first country in the region to implement voluntary tests, suspecting that a number of the some 1,300 deaths according to a Saudi tally are down to a respiratory syndrome ailment such as Covid-19. A Togolese government statement on Friday said hajj pilgrims would have to undergo compulsory Covid tests and “limit contacts,…
A group of Nigerians deported from Turkey arrived at the pilgrims’ wing of the airport on Southwind Airlines flight TC-GRB at approximately 6:45 pm. They were greeted by multiple government agencies including NEMA, NSCDC, DSS, and military personnel. The deportees expressed anger over their treatment in Turkey, where they alleged unfair detention for over 11…
A Magistrates’ Court in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, has remanded a 45-year-old farmer, Gbenga Abajigbin, for raping a 65-year-old woman in the state. The police charged Abajigbin with rape. The prosecutor, Inspector Sodiq Adeniyi, told the court that the farmer committed the offence at Ipole-Iloro in Ekiti State in April 2024. Adeniyi said the…
