Politics & Policy

By Bassey Udo To boost the country’s productivity and growth, Nigerians must move away from the current revenue sharing formula and focus on a formula that ensures the country’s resources were shared on the basis of productivity, one of the Presidential aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi,…

By Halimah Yahaya The Federal Government must ensure the effective enforcement of internal democracy under the Electoral Act, 2022, the Director of the Abuja School of Social and Political Thoughts, Sam Amadi, has said. Amadi, who is the former Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), stressed the importance…

MEDIATRACNET Former President, Goodluck Jonathan, on Monday rejected moves by a shadowy group, the Fulani Cattle Breeders Association, to draft him into the 2023 presidential race against his will. Jonathan, a chieftain of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), handed over power to the incumbent president, Muhammadu Buhari, on May…

By Bassey Udo The ranks of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential aspirants jostling to take over from President Muhammadu Buhari come May 29, 2023 grew on Monday, as admirers of the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, stormed his office in Abuja to deliver his expression of…

By Bassey Udo Despite spirited clandestine attempts by some groups and individuals to drag him to join the 2023 Presidential race, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Godwin Emefiele, on Saturday declared he has not yet come to that decision personally. After several weeks of underground political campaigns spearheaded by…

By Haleema Yahaya Nigeria’s former Senate President, Ken Nnamani, on Friday declared his ambition to join the 2023 presidential race on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC). Nnamani, who made the declaration during a media briefing in Abuja said of all the persons that have so far declared…

PHOTO (L-R) Sam Ohuabunwa, Anyim Pius Anyim, Peter Obi and Nwachukwu Anakwenze at the end of the meeting on Saturday p To brighten the chance of the South-East geo-political zone to produce the presidential candidate come the 2023 presidential elections, aspirants on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)…

MEDIATRACNET The report on the new revenue sharing formula was on Thursday day presented by the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) to President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja The report was presented to the president by the Chairman of RMAFC, Elias Mbam. Receiving the report, Buhari said he would…

By Innocent Okon Nigerian genre of politics and politicking will never cease to freeze! If and when it is not awfully preposterous, it is truth walking on its head. All the actors on stage, by their body language and utterances, want the audience to believe that new costumes and stage…

By Bassey Udo The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and the Aig-Imoukhuede Foundation have announced a partnership to develop Nigeria’s maiden Public Sector Performance Index, the statistics agency said in Abuja. At the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding for the project between the NBS and the Aig-Imoukhuede Foundation in…