NIGERIA’s President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu left Abuja for Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on January 26th to attend the Mission 300 Africa Energy Summit. His mission to Tanzania was straightforward – to further galvanise efforts, multilateral support and investments aimed at increasing electricity access to Nigerians. The Misson 300 initiative itself is aimed at expanding electricity access to 300 million people throughout Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030. Why is the Mission 300 Initiative important to Nigeria? To start with, Africa currently has over 600 million people who lack access to electricity, which is close to half of the population in the continent.…
Author: Dada Olusegun
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PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu as part of his global diplomatic shuttles to seek out more development opportunities for Nigeria through forging of partnerships with other nations, undertook a state visit to France. President Tinubu’s trip to France was the first State Visit by a Nigerian President to France in 24 years and it signalled an evolution of relations between Nigeria and Europe’s third-largest economy, France. During the two-day state visit, Nigeria’s President, Bola Tinubu and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron led their respective countries’ delegations to negotiate and sign far-reaching mutual agreements across multiple areas of cooperation at the Champs-Élysées. However,…
SINCE President Bola Tinubu transmitted four executive bills tagged #TaxReformBills to the national assembly last month, many needless controversies have engulfed the debate around the bill. Most of these controversies are simply borne out of inability of those flaming the controversies to carefully go through the contents of the bills currently before the parliament. As a result of, a lot of ordinary Nigerians are confused about the true position of these bills especially as it affects their pockets. I want to briefly breakdown the tax reform bills in a very concise and easily understood manner. The tax reform bills are…
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu on Friday rounded off his official visit to China with his trip to the world’s 2nd largest economy ending with very significant and mouthwatering gains for Nigeria. It was obvious that the President was looking forward to a trip heavy on deals that would impact on Nigeria’s quest to improve our infrastructure, agriculture, power, solid minerals etc judging by the public officials in his official entourage. From the Finance Minister/Coordinating Minister of the Economy, the Minister of Trade and Investment, the Minister of Solid Minerals, Minister of Power, FCT Minister, Minister of Defence, Minister of Transportation, Minister…