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After three months of bootless committee meetings in the comfort of air-conditioned offices at the cost of one billion naira (President Bola Tinubu approved 500 million naira to “start with… first”) and about a month after the expiration of the last minimum wage approved in 2019, the Tinubu government has not been able to approve […]
Abba Dukawa Federal government has increase electricity tariff from N66 to N225. Even though NERC emphasised the increase in tariff will only affect customers enjoying 20 hour power supply and above across the country. While other customers in Bands B, C, D and E who consume less than less than 20 hours per day are […]
Rufai Oseni, a renowned Arise TV anchor and a respected figure in political discourse, has ignited a thought-provoking discussion with his recent remarks. In a bold statement shared on his social media platform, Oseni challenges the conventional wisdom that judges a government’s success solely by its ability to meet basic obligations like salary and pension […]
Ayo Adebanjo, a prominent figure in Afenifere, the pan-Yoruba socio-political group, warns that hunger protests, escalating insecurity, and the plummeting value of the naira are ominous indicators of Nigeria’s impending collapse. In a conversation with TheCable on Saturday, Adebanjo emphasized the urgent need to restructure Nigeria’s constitution to embrace true federalism, asserting that without this […]
A prominent Yoruba activist, Aare Kurunmi Kakanfo, has expressed concern over the possibility of the Igbo community sparking another civil conflict in Nigeria. Kakanfo, in a statement shared on his verified social media page, emphasized the deep-rooted animosity between the Yoruba and Igbo ethnic groups, attributing it to what he perceives as the Igbo’s assertive […]
Renowned Nigerian lawyer and human rights activist, San Femi Falana, has called on the Nigerian government to consider joining the BRICS group of emerging economies, reject policies imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, and adopt a strategy of selling crude oil in the local currency, the Naira. Falana made these assertions […]
Yesterday, The Spectacles received an announcement from the office of the former Governor of Zamfara State, Senator representing Zamfara West Constituency in the Senate of Nigeria, Senator Abdul’aziz Yari Abubakar. In the announcement, he directed the Chief Coordinator responsible for the affairs of his Head Office in his constituency of Zamfara West, Alhaji Sha’aya S. […]
By Suleiman A Suleiman, A journalist based in Abuja. suleimanasuleiman476@gmail.com The persistent issue of kidnapping and other insecurity challenges in Nigeria has raised significant concerns, especially in the prevention of investment in the country. This has been further exacerbated by the targeting of high-value individuals, and strategic locations in the capital city, a sit of […]
By Yushau A. Shuaib In the past couple of weeks, the media has been awash with reported cases of monumental scandals involving individuals and organisations associated with the immediate past administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. Some of the reports claim that the suspects not only looted billions in local and foreign currencies from the Nigerian […]
By Ahmed Ghani Hassan I wonder why people are too curious to hear about the unnecessarily things about the previous admistration which is not what the country is in need of at this critical condition, where the Government is in full of mess to hide their unperfomance within their six months in office. The allegations […]