Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has signed into regulation the invoice that reinstates the nation's first nationwide anthem since independence from the UK in 1960.
“Nigeria, We Hail Thee” with lyrics by Briton Lillian Jean Williams – scrapped in 1978 by Olusegun Obasanjo, who got here to energy in a coup – is Nigeria's nationwide anthem once more, changing “Come up O' Compatriots”.
Not a number of residents see the nationwide anthem change as a distraction to divert public consideration away from the worsening financial disaster.
The economic system tanked throughout Bola Tinubu's first yr as Nigeria's president, with inflation hitting a 28-year excessive of 33.2%.
“It's a waste of time,” Cheta Nwanzi, an analyst at SBM Intelligence, informed Reuters. “The most important (points) are inflation and safety issues. That is what the federal government ought to see,” he pressured.
Supply: APE-MPE-Reuters
