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Jan 16, 2025 | 
theafricareport.com | Ben Ezeamalu
Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State, Nigeria, stirred up a presidential hornet’s nest during Christmas holidays when he spoke strongly against President Bola Tinubu‘s proposed tax reforms, arguing that they are anti-north and capable of triggering anarchy from the region. Get full access to The Africa Report
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
theafricareport.com | Ben Ezeamalu |in Lagos
By Ben Ezeamalu, in Lagos Reserved for subscribers Posted on January 14, 2025 15:30
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
theafricareport.com | Ben Ezeamalu
Nigeria Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) officials loyal to Nyesom Wike have launched an attack on Ikenga Ugochinyere, a federal lawmaker who has been a rallying point against the antics of the former governor within Nigeria‘s major opposition party. “Since he became a national assembly member, he has not attended any meeting of the party and those things are punishable,” Lancelot Obiaku, the PDP Get full access to The Africa Report
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
theafricareport.com | Ben Ezeamalu
Workers in several states across Nigeria, including the capital city Abuja, have begun an indefinite strike over the failure of their governors to pay the N70,000 ($42) new minimum wage to workers. The monthly wage was agreed between the workers and President Bola Tinubu last July after the labour unions initially demanded N615,000. “I’m excited about the Nigerian workers and the national minimum Get full access to The Africa Report
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
theafricareport.com | Ben Ezeamalu
Former governor Yahaya Bello has pleaded not guilty before a high court in Nigeria‘s capital Abuja, months after refusing the court’s summons to appear before it. Bello and two others are facing a 16-count charge of fraud that involved the conversion of N110bn ($60m) of Kogi State funds for personal use. Africa Insights Wake up to the essential with the Editor's picks.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
theafricareport.com | Ben Ezeamalu
The amalgamation of Nigeria‘s northern and southern protectorate by the British colonial administrators clocked 100 years in 2014. Ten years later, some prominent Nigerians have begun making a case for a reassessment of Britain’s decision in 1914 to merge two “totally unrelated” parts of its colony into a nation. Get full access to The Africa Report
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
theafricareport.com | Ben Ezeamalu
Mudashiru Obasa is the longest-serving speaker in the Lagos State House of Assembly and one of the few politicians in Nigeria who have been in an elective position since the country’s return to democracy in 1999. Now he has set his sights on becoming the governor. Get full access to The Africa Report
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
theafricareport.com | Ben Ezeamalu
Former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo’s criticism of the Bola Tinubu administration has put the one-time military head of state’s legacy under the spotlight, with Tinubu’s spokespersons launching a scathing attack on him, questioning his achievements while in office. Obasanjo criticised President Tinubu and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) government in a speech he delivered in the US last weekend titled ‘Leadership Failure and State Capture in Nigeria’.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
theafricareport.com | Ben Ezeamalu |in Lagos
A social media post by former Ondo State first lady Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu in which she described Nigeria as a “zoo” triggered ethnically charged exchanges on X, with her critics labelling her a bigot and an apologist of the separatist group Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). “Zoo” is a term often used by members of IPOB to refer to Nigeria. Get full access to The Africa Report
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
theafricareport.com | Ben Ezeamalu
More than 200 people died from flooding across Nigeria in what experts describe as one of the most devastating impacts of climate change in recent times in Africa’s most populous country. Hundreds of thousands were displaced in 29 out of Nigeria’s 36 states, according to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). “Worst hit was the northern states,” Manzo Ezekiel, NEMA’s spokesperson, tells The Africa Report.
