Last week, both conventional and social media were awash with the news of raiding or bursting up of some correctional centres across the North. It started in Daura, Katsina state where the rehabilitation centre was cracked down and dehumanised inmates freed. Like harmattan fire, it spread to Kaduna state in which the executive governor of the state, El-rufai, led combined security forces to Rigasa a suburb or an outskirt area of the state where an old correctional centre was closed and nearly 200 tortured, dehumanised and emaciated adults and children released. This action has sent panic and warning signals to…
Author: Ibrahim Mustapha
The discovery of hydrocarbon deposist (crude oil) in the kolmani river 11 well on the upper Benue, through gongola basin, in north east is a cheering news and welcome development. The discovery would not have become posible without the support of president Muhammadu Buhari and the strong commitment of the erstwhile group managing director of NNPC, Maikanti Baru. Now, Northern Nigeria has joined the league of oil producing region. The discovery of crude oil in the region as stated by government would create job opportunities, generate revenue and above all attract investments. If the exploration begins and oil starts flowing,…
President Muhammadu Buhari during the Nigeria 25 economy summit, stated that few individuals in 4 to 5 states including the FCT hold the country’s wealth leaving over 150 Nigerians population in the remaining states languishing in abject poverty. President Buhari’s statement coincides with the Oxfam shocking revelation of the increase of poverty in the land from 89 million to 94 million as captured by the world poverty clock. Although President Buhari neither mentioned the names of those individuals and the states they live nor the sources of their wealth, his statement has puzzled many Nigerians and put them guessing. The…
The federal government has recently increased the value added tax (VAT) from 5% to 7.5%. The increase in VAT has continued to generate uproar and mixed reaction in the country. The organised labour and some economy experts have condemned the move in strong term and described the increase as untimely aimed at inflicting more pains to the lives of poverty ravaged Nigerians. The N.L.C stated that, the increase in VAT while government is still negotiating the minimum wage will not augur well to welfare of Nigerians workers. The VAT will end up eating the much talked minimum wage and erode…
President Buhari has been inaugurated for a second term in office, having won his re-election in the last general election. In his first term in office, President Buhari was criticized for the slow running of governance. It took him six months to form his cabinets. Although, Buhari’s administration inherited a broken economy as a result of alleged massive corruption that characterized the Jonathan’s government and the crash of crude oil price, it has failed to stabilize the battered economy to the expectations of Nigerians in the last four years. Under its watch, as reported by Brooking Institution, over 87 million…
