It amounts to “stupidity” for the Federal Government to continue subsidy payments when it is clear that it is pushing the nation into ”bankruptcy.”  We realize that “cheap fuel” is not more beneficial to the poor than. In 2011, we tried to explain that it’s bad economics; for every $1 billion Nigeria spends on fuel subsidy, it is $1 billion out of education, $1 billion out of healthcare, $1 billion out of power, $1billion out of infrastructure. What people in suppor...

Engr. Rabiu Kwankwaso, the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), says the incoming government in Kano will revisit the dethronement of Muhammadu Sanusi as the Emir of Kano and might re-enthrone the dethroned monarch. Abdullahi Ganduje, outgoing governor of the state, dethroned Sanusi, 14th emir of Kano, in 2020, over allegations of insubordination.Aminu Bayero, son of the late Ado Bayero and emir of Bichi, was installed as Sanusi’s replacem...

The former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Lamido Sanusi, has said the claim by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company that Nigeria consumes 66 million litres of fuel daily is simply “unbelievable.”Sanusi queried the supposed volume of Nigeria’s daily consumption of petrol. We need to do a high standard audit of every penny spent on the NNPC.He said, “In 2019, officially we were importing 40 million litres per day. In 2022 officially, we were importing 66...