Ayo Akinfe
We will aim for annual double-digit economic growth between 2023 and 2030. If we enjoy 10% growth every year for a decade, it will increase Nigeria's GDP to over $1trn from the current $400bn. At the moment, over 90% of government revenue comes from crude oil exports. This soft underbelly makes Nigeria highly vulnerable to...
NIGERIA'S House of Representatives has begun the process of passing a law that will recognise security outfits like Amotekun and Ebube Agu created by states to complement the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) in the effort to protect lives and property.
Over recent years, insecurity has become rife in Nigeria with terrorist sects,...
Ayo Akinfe
Our new constitution will scrap the immunity at both the federal and state levels for presidents, vice presidents, governors and their deputies
Anyone found guilty of embezzling anything in excess of N1m ($2,500) will receive a mandatory life prison sentence
The president must sell off all of the...
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has written to the National Assembly asking for its permission to borrow an extra $6.1bn from bilateral and multilateral financial organisations to fund the deficit in Nigeria's 2021 budget.
Although spared the worst health excesses of the Covid-19 virus, Nigeria has been hit hard by the economic...
DEPUTY speaker of Nigeria's House of Representatives Hon Idris Wase has lashed out at senate minority leader Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe saying he should be in detention over his failure to produce Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu who he stood bail for.
Back in September 2017, Mr Kanu broke bail and...
SECURITY has been beefed up around Nigeria's National Assembly complex in Abuja amid fears that terrorist sect Boko Haram is planning to launch an attack against the facility and several other public buildings.
Several members of the House of Representatives confirmed that they had been notified of the imminent attack by the...
Ayo Akinfe
I will say thank you to all of you wonderful people for all the unbelievable birthday messages I received yesterday by launching a 2023 election manifesto. You guys all want Nigeria to be a better place, so here is a programme to lift our dear nation out of poverty
Let us all hope one of the candidates can pick this up...
NIGERIA'S House of Representatives has tendered an apology to the country's 15m strong diaspora for rejecting a recent petition by the Mutual Union of Tivs in America (Muta) after its deputy speaker Hon Idris Wase said diasporans should have no say in running Nigeria.
On March 10, Hon Mark Gbillah, the lawmaker representing...
LAWMAKERS in Nigeria's House of Representatives have begun deliberating a bill that will empower the National Assembly to summon the president and state governors to answer questions about prevailing developments in the country.
In November last year, President Buhari was summoned by the House of Representatives to appear...
NIGERIA Labour Congress (NLC) officials have dubbed nine state governors anti-worker for refusing to start paying the new minimum wage and have vowed to take industrial action should it be removed from the federal exclusive list.
In February 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari signed the Minimum Wage Act in 2019 which...
