Author: Dr. Abiodun Adeniyi

President Mohammadu Buhari (GCFR) presented on October 8, the 2020 Budget proposal to a joint session of the National Assembly. The presentation relatively came early this year, in what appeared a renewed bid to kick-start the budgetary processes in good time for the January to December calendar year. The sum of N10.33tn is projected as expenditure. N8.155tn is the revenue the government anticipates, while the difference between the expected expenditure and the projected revenue, which evens up to N2.18tn will form the deficit. The oil price benchmark of the budget is US$57 per barrel, hinged on a daily production approximation…

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The Swedish-Ghana Cancer Centre could have been established in Nigeria instead of Ghana. However, Nigerian civil servants asking for bribes killed that dream. Now, because of them, thousands of patients troop to Ghana for much needed cancer care. The reverse would have been the case and better for our people. A national emergency telephone line could be operational in Nigeria today but Nigerian civil servants asking for bribes killed that too. The men and women at the helm of affairs asking for bribes before implementation put paid to the dream. Today, we do not have a responsible organisation that can…

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Presidential Candidate of People’s Trust (PT), Mr. Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim has congratulated the candidate of the All Progress Congress (APC), President Mohammadu Buhari on his declaration as the winner of last Saturday’s presidential election, however calling on him to be mindful of numerous lapses identified in the electioneering process. Olawepo-Hashim who ran a robust campaign harping on issues and preferring solutions to them, stressed that not a few gaps including card reader failures, thump printing of ballot papers, allocation of results, violence and killing plagued the polls, but he is congratulating the declared winner for the greater good, peace and progress…

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Third Force Presidential candidate running on the People’s Trust (PT) platform, Mr. Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim has written the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral, Professor Mahmoud Yakubu requesting a further extension of the Presidential and National Assembly elections because the one week extension is rather too short to conclude the stated enormous logistics requirement for the polls. The candidate, who lately led the online polls of most preferred candidate amongst the third force, argued in a letter to the INEC chairman that another extension was reasonable in view of the logistics burden on the contestants and the parties. The candidates and…

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