Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has tasked the President Bola Tinubu-led administration to come up with means through
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has tasked President Bola Tinubu -led administration to come up with means through which Nigerian youths can be fully engaged before things get out of hand.
He maintained that youths are restive because the majority of them lack the basic skills required to make ends meet while describing Nigeria as a nation sitting on a keg of gunpowder whose explosion is just a matter of time.“They have no empowerment. They have no employment. We are all sitting on a keg of gunpowder. And my prayer is that we will do the right thing before it’s too late,” he warned.
He also lamented Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited , the International Oil Companies, and other national oil companies’ failure to ramp up oil production to meet the country’s needs. “When I was president, I invited Shell to come and take equity and run our refineries for us. They refused and said our refineries were not well maintained. We brought amateurs instead of professionals. Then there was too much corruption in the way our refineries were maintained. They didn’t want to get involved in such a mess,” he said.
Justice Akintayo Aluko of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, granted a N50 million bail sum to suspects who allegedly defrauded MTN Nigeria Communication of the sum of N1.9 billion. The trial judge granted them bail after hearing two separate bail applications filed by the defendants. Justice Aluko also ordered the defendants to…
APC women ask Tinubu to review economic polices Angry youths in Jos North Local Council of Plateau State defied the curfew imposed by the government, as they trooped out yesterday in their thousands to confront security agencies, thereby creating tension in the area. Police shot into the air to scare the youths, whose motive…
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