Author: Vincent Osuwo

BudgIT, a leading civic-tech organization advocating for transparency and accountability in Nigeria’s public finances, is calling on the Budget Office of the Federation and the Office of the Minister for Finance of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to promptly publish the 2022 third quarter budget implementation report as mandated by extant legislation. It has been eight months since the end of the third quarter of 2022, and according to the law, the report’s publication ought not to extend beyond 30 working days after the end of the quarter. This request is pertinent, having ascertained that the report is presently inaccessible…

President Bola Tinubu has signed into law the 2023 Electricity Act, which replaces the 2005 Electricity and Power Sector Reform Act. The newly adopted law will end the monopoly of national power generation, transmission, and distribution in Nigeria. This new law will provide states, businesses, and individuals with the authority to generate, transmit, and distribute electricity throughout the country. In July 2022, lawmakers passed the Electricity Act 2023, which empowered states to grant licenses to private investors to establish mini-grids and power plants within their states. However, the Act excluded interstate and transnational electricity delivery. AEDC blames unstable electricity on…

Mr. Abdullahi Sule, the governor of Nasarawa State, stated yesterday that the Muhammadu Buhari administration spent over $19 billion repairing Nigeria’s four refineries in eight years with zero results. Governor Sule stated this while speaking on Channels Television yesterday, June 8, 2023. The governor, who was Managing Director of African Petroleum (AP) about 20 years ago, stated that the process and finances for fixing the country’s refineries were largely mismanaged. Buhari commissions Dangote refinery, seeks to end fuel imports The governor claimed that various licenses had been awarded in the past for the construction of refineries, but that this had…

Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, the flag bearer of the Labour Party (LP) in the recent past Lagos State Gubernatorial election, has condemned in totality, the statement made by the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon Mudashiru Obasa. Earlier, Chronicle NG reported that Hon Obasa, during his inauguration as the Speaker of the 10th Assembly, had stated that hence “Lagos is a Yoruba land as against the assertions of some people that it is a no-man’s land,” therefore, “There would be laws…in the areas of economy and commerce, property and titles, and we will reverse all that is reversible to…

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the National Salaries Incomes and Wages Commission (NSIWC), Ekpo Nta, has stated that the Federal Government has set up a National Pay Policy (NPP) to combat workplace arbitrariness and ensure adequate remuneration for Nigerian workers. Nta who stated this while speaking with the Daily Sun, said the new federal government’s policy would analyze the amount of hours a person spends in the office as well as the quality of work done to determine income payment. He said: “What it entails is that when people are working in any country, even in your own private…

The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Mudashiru Obasa has stated that Lagos belongs to the indigenous Yorubas and it is not a no man’s land. Hon Obasa stated this in his acceptance speech as a third-term speaker of the Lagos Parliament and the inauguration of the 10th Lagos assembly on Tuesday. This comes against the backdrop of the ethno-political and religious divides between lagosians during the recent 2023 national elections. In the presidential and gubernatorial elections, many Igbos backed the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and the LP’s state governorship candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour. However, this…

On Thursday, June 8, 2023, a knife wielding man attacked a group of preschool children playing at a lake in the town of Amnecy, France, leaving four injured along with an adult. The suspect, a Syrian Asylum seeker, was however arrested at the scene of the incident. Confirming the arrest, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin stated that he had been arrested “thanks to the rapid reaction of security forces”. Gunmen free 74 children after parents pay N20,000 ransom each in Zamfara It is reported that two of the children who are believed to be aged around three, and the adult were…

Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Kaduna State chapter, Rev. Joseph Hayab, has called on Nigerians on Wednesday, June 6, 2023, to ignore the  Islamization claims made by the state’s former governor, Nasir El-Rufai. The CAN chairman further claimed that El-Rufai’s recent pronouncements regarding a Muslim/Muslim ticket, as well as President Bola Tinubu’s victory that silenced his opponents and CAN, were methods geared at advancing his supposed presidential ambitions and fostering divisiveness among Christians and Muslims in the country. El-Rufai claimed that the Muslim-Muslim ticket would be run in Kaduna for at least the next 20 years. According…

Ishaku Lawal, a 23-year-old man, has been arresting by men of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Jigawa for molesting a 9-years-old boy. Public Relations Officer of the NSCDC, CSC Adamu Shehu, disclosed this in a statement signed by him on Wednesday, June 7, 2023. According to the statement, the victim’s father revealed that his daughter, the victim’s elder sister, informed him that the suspect had sexually molested her brother. Fulani herder rapes teenager in Bauchi The statement partly read, “Upon questioning, the boy stated that he was taken to an isolated place in the evening while…

The Network for Democracy and Development (NDD), has stated that, corruption in the fuel subsidy scheme, is the obvious problem that has bedevilled the scheme. After the group’s extensive consultation with stakeholders in the country over the subsidy removal, the association concluded that “corruption is the elephant in the room” affecting the policy. They stated that, the Federal Government’s “narratives, tend to criminalise fuel subsidy rather than corruption” and that the “Government has not provided empirical data that links the removal of fuel subsidy to improved wellbeing of citizens”. Fuel Subsidy: TUC demands N200,000 minimum wage The NDD who stated…