MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas “Nigeria is finished patapata!” Do you often hear that? I have observed over time that there are people who get excited by negative news concerning Nigeria. If the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reports that we have recorded a negative GDP growth rate or the economy is heading for a recession, they […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas If the elites of the North will not ‘give’ President Bola Tinubu a second term, who told them that the South will give power back to them in 2027? Leper losing his needle presents peculiar problems. It is not two years since power changed hands in Nigeria but the jungle is already […] Read more
‘Buhari took 20 months’ – Presidency silence critics, mentions date Tinubu will announce ambassadors
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas President Tinubu’s led federal government has justified the delay in the appointment of ambassadors. Tinubu’s aide, Ademola Oshodi, responded to critics and revealed that it took ex-President Muhammadu Buhari 20 months to announce his ambassadors. In a trending interview, Oshodi further disclosed that Tinubu will announce his ambassadors in a few weeks. […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas A United Kingdom-based Nigerian, Toyyib Adelodun, has shed light on the financial challenges being faced by migrants in the United Kingdom, particularly when navigating visa applications and associated fees. In a video shared online on his TikTok page on Friday, Adelodun detailed the steep costs involved in securing post-study work visas, highlighting […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas Zagazola Makama, a Lake Chad Basin counterterrorism and insurgency expert, made this known in a post on his X handle on Monday. Activist, Mahdi Shehu has been arrested by the Department of State Services, DSS. He was arrested over allegations of sharing a misleading video that has gone viral online. Zagazola Makama, […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas *Say electricity on Concurrent List, not Exclusive List The 36 states of the federation, through their commissioners for power and energy, have kicked against the plan by the National Assembly to amend the Electricity Act 2023 to make the Nigerian Electricity Management Services Agency (NEMSA) the sole regulatory agency for enforcing technical […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas The senator representing Nasarawa West in the National Assembly, Ahmed Aliyu Wadada, has dismissed claims suggesting that President Bola Tinubu was waging a war against the North by introducing the Tax Reform Bills. Wadada made the statement while speaking to journalists in Abuja yesterday. He highlighted the numerous positive interventions by the […] Read more
By Farooq A. Kperogi MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas In today’s Saturday’s column, I bring to public attention what a close supporter of Tinubu, who is Yoruba, confided in me about Tinubu’s Yorubacentric provincialism at the NNPC, reminiscent of Buhari’s unabashed Arewacentricity. I hope Nigeria can transcend the ethnocratic insularity of its leaders someday. Tinubu’s Buharization of […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas El-Rufai Reacts as Kperogi Accuses Tinubu of Appointing Yoruba People to Major Positions in NNPCL Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, former governor of Kaduna state, has weighed in on Professor Farooq Kperogi’s recent criticism of alleged ethnic favouritism in President Bola Tinubu’s appointments. In an article titled “Tinubu’s Buharisation of the NNPC,” Kperogi accused […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas On Thursday, the opposition Labour Party (LP), People’s Democratic Party (PDP), and others made a mockery of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for Nigeria’s growing poverty. The opposition parties’ denunciation came after a widely shared video of long lines of Nigerians waiting for meals on Christmas Eve at President Bola Tinubu’s Bourdillon […] Read more
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