President Tinubu to address Nigerians today

At 7 p.m. on Monday (today), President Bola Tinubu will address Nigerians.

Dele Alake, the President’s Special Adviser on Strategy, Communication, and Special Duties, made the announcement in a statement made public on Monday morning.

On Monday, July 31, 2023, at 7 p.m., “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will make a broadcast to the nation.

In order to broadcast the event, television stations, radio stations, and other electronic media outlets were urged to connect to the network services of Radio Nigeria and the Nigerian Television Authority, according to the announcement.

The elimination of the subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit, more commonly known as gasoline, and its subsequent impact on Nigerians’ cost of living may not be unrelated to the broadcast.

The Nigeria Labour Congress claimed last week that as a result of the hardship, Nigerians lost their peace of mind as a result of Tinubu’s inaugural speech on May 29, 2023, when he proclaimed, “Subsidy is gone.”

The labour congress criticized the Tinubu administration for its “unfriendly” policies and said that the administration had continued to treat Nigerians like slaves in a statement issued in Abuja and jointly signed by its National President, Joe Ajaero, and Secretary-General, Emmanuel Ugboaja.

The NLC has reportedly started mass mobilization ahead of its planned statewide strike, which is set to start on Wednesday in protest of the hardship caused by the loss of fuel subsidies, according to a report earlier today.

The NLC invited Nigerians to “join us at the Unity Fountain, Abuja on Wednesday, August 2, 2023, at 7 am” in a schedule that our correspondent in Abuja was able to obtain on Sunday.

There is no country in the world where the government completely abandons its people to the whims of the market without any oversight or protection. Instead of subjecting everyday folks to unwarranted suffering and misery, the Federal Government should take swift and decisive action to address the criminal substance of subsidies.

The NLC stated that fixing all of our refineries was necessary “as a matter of national urgency” in order to meet domestic fuel consumption.