Be more patient with economic challenges, Yerima urges Nigerians
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Sen. Sani Yerima, former Zamfara State Governor, has called for more patience among Nigerians in order to overcome the current economic challenges in the country.
He said the discomfort Nigerians are currently facing as a result of some decisions taken by President Bola Tinubu would soon be a thing of the past.
Yerima made the declaration in an interview with State House Correspondents after he met with Tinubu on Monday.
He, therefore, urged citizens to understand that the decisions were taken in the best interest of the nation and its citizens.
“The President, having taken over the realm of affairs of our country, came up with three quick decisions that I believe as an economist, are going to help this country to achieve development.
“He removed the fuel subsidy, which former leaders could not remove. He has harmonised the foreign exchange, which is going to help the import and export system of this country and finally he re-opened the borders for goods and services to flow into Nigeria.
“These three decisions were taken in the interest of Nigeria and with patience Nigerians will see the advantage of these decisions. What the President needs is prayers and the support of Nigerians.
“We have to be patient and I am sure the initial discomfort associated with the decisions, especially removal of subsidy, I am sure will go away in due course,” he said.
The former governor assured citizens that plans are already in the pipeline for palliative measures that would cushion the effects of the removal of subsidy on petrol.
Revealed: Tinubu’s move against Terrorism
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PERHAPS, nothing best captures President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s inheritance of the toxic space called
Nigeria from former President Muhammadu Buhari, then the mess in the security and economic spheres.
With a naira swap policy that left much poorer and an energy insufficiency on the one hand, Boko Haram terrorists in the North East, the bandits of the North West and Niger State, the herders/farmers clashes of Benue and Plateau and criminality in Kogi and Nasarawa states in North Central, the IPoB separatist of the South East, the crude oil thieves of the South-South and the ritual killings-for-fame-and-money in the South West on the other hand, Nigeria appears to be a country in the throes of economic and security doom.
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Whereas farming activities are hampered by the terrorists creating food security challenges, the IPoB separatists of the South East are destroying the economy of that region with its illegally-mandated sit-at-home Mondays, and the crude oil thieves of the Niger Delta continue to reduce Nigeria’s production output thereby reducing foreign exchange earnings, Tinubu’s work is laid bare before him. Doom looms! Undaunted, however, President Tinubu, this report will reveal, is set to confront the symbiotic challenges of the economy and security with a multi-pronged approach that is expected to create a secure environment which will drive economic growth and also ensure political stability.
This report is a painstaking treatise on how Nigeria got to this point and what President Tinubu plans to do to salvage the situation.
July 2014. Nothing best captures the shambolic security situation in Nigeria today than the lack of trust, in-fighting and activities of fifth columnists within the security sector, leading to the gruesome killing of one Major Timothy Fambiya, nine years ago.
His story is known to some top military commanders of that era because the operation in which he took part was both strategic and very sensitive. Fambiya is a native of Gwoza in Yobe State. Intel extracted from and some made available by detained members of Boko Haram (members of the Jama’atu Ahliss-Sunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, (western education is evil) suggested that their leader at that time, the now late Abubakar Shekau, was hiding somewhere around the hills in Gwoza.
METROFire guts popular hotel in Onitsha
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Sopurum Hotel, located in the Nkwelle community, Onitsha, Anambra State, has been gutted by fire.
DAILY POST learnt that the incident, which occurred early hours of Monday, led to the burning of a substantial part of the hotel structure.
Men of the fire service from Delta and Anambra states are currently at the scene battling with the situation at the time of filing this report.
The police spokesman for Anambra State Police Command, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, confirmed the fire incident to Channels TV, saying the situation is under control.
The situation is under control. The fire started around 4:30 am on Monday, and when we got the information, our men were quickly mobilised to the scene, and they condoned off the area to avoid any case of vandalism,” he said.
CSO demands immediate downward review of NASS, govs’ salary, incentives
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AMIDST tough economic impact on Nigerians, the heightened burden of excruciating and crushing poverty Nigerians currently are grappling with including pangs of insecurity across the country, a Civil Society Organization, CSO, One Love Foundation, OLF, Monday, demanded a downward review of salary and incentives for National Assembly, NASS, members, and State governors.
The President and Founder, OLF, Chief Patrick Eholor, said it is unacceptable for the jumbo salary and allowances NASS members are taking home as revealed by one of the media organisations after its investigation about what NASS members receive as salary, allowances and incentives monthly.
Eholor said the core civil servants are languishing in abject poverty and frustration, which also to be paid their gratuity becomes a tug of war are being currently paid a paltry sum of N30,000 as a minimum wage that cannot take them home.
He said when this is done then Nigeria is in for a new beginning where civil servants’ salary is higher than the pay and allowances received by political office holders but added that the political office holders keep their salary, allowances and incentives secret rather than talk about the salary of civil servants with all kinds of committees set up to review it.
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