President Bola Ahmed Tinubu

President Tinubu Approves National Forest Guards To Tackle Bandits

President Tinubu Creates New Security Outfit To Guard Forests

October 3, 2025 2:21 pm

President Bola Tinubu approves a new security force to protect Nigeria’s forests, curb criminal hideouts, and create jobs for thousands of young citizens.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has authorized the creation of the Forest Guards of Nigeria, a new security force tasked with securing more than 1,100 forests across the country. The move is part of a wider effort to dismantle safe havens used by terrorists, armed bandits, and other criminal groups.

The initiative, announced on Wednesday by presidential adviser Sunday Dare, marks one of the most direct attempts yet by the government to address insecurity in Nigeria’s rural areas. …

President Tinubu Hails Economic Gains In Independence Day Speech

President Tinubu Hails Economic Gains On Independence Day

October 1, 2025 6:07 pm

President Bola Tinubu says his administration reforms are easing hardship as Nigeria marks 65 years of independence with promises of growth and security.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday October 1, 2025, in Abuja, told Nigerians that the country has “turned the corner” after enduring painful reforms, declaring that the worst economic challenges are behind the nation as it marks its 65th Independence Day.

In a national broadcast from Abuja, the Nigerian President, said his government had taken difficult but necessary steps to reset Africa’s largest economy, including scrapping fuel subsidies and unifying the foreign exchange system. He acknowledged that

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Tinubu, Kanu, And Nigeria’s Crossroads For Justice

January 15, 2025 1:00 am

In a nation where “renewed hope” was meant to signal a fresh start, Nigeria under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has instead plunged into a deeper abyss of economic despair and political inertia. Amid this chaos lies the unlawful detention of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a glaring symbol of the government’s obsession with silencing dissent rather than addressing Nigeria’s myriad challenges.

Tinubu’s tenure so far has been marked by record-breaking inflation, which reached 34.60% in November 2024 according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS, 2024). This, coupled with a naira in freefall …

Renewed Killings And The Need To Urgently Restructure Nigeria

July 20, 2023 3:06 am

In recent times, Insecurity has become the scariest nightmare that Nigerians grapple with. Painfully, the security of lives and property, which is supposed to be primary to any functioning government, has eluded Nigerians, leaving them perplexed and worried over what could befall them.

Stories of reported kidnappings, banditry and other forms of insurgency now dominate the airwaves and news headlines, which paint a picture of how lives are being destroyed, businesses are being crushed, dreams are being ripped apart, and millions of citizens are resorting to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps for refuge and succour.

Rather than getting better with …

Tinubu’s Hallucinations Of A One-Party State For Nigeria

July 13, 2023 3:52 am

In a futile scramble for legitimacy and public acceptance, Nigeria’s recently-inaugurated President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is back with his funny games. Miffed by his unpopularity, he is out to destroy the remnants of Nigeria’s crumbling democracy through a craftily orchestrated takeover of opposition parties and their eventual balkanisation under a falsehood code-named the Government of national unity.

The recent political maneuvers by the former Lagos State Governor have left many Nigerians bewildered, given the fact that the two major opposition parties, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party, are presently contesting the results of the shabby exercise …