The House of Representatives is to get N70 billion allocation from President Bola Tinubu’s N819 billion palliative meant to cushion the effect of fuel subsidy on Nigerians. The amount according to the President’s letter sent on July 12 and read by the Speaker, Rep. Tajudeen Abbas, was meant to...
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By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has poured encomiums on Nobel Laureate and elder statesman, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on his 89th birthday, describing him as a veritable source of support, inspiration and encouragement. The President, who called Professor Soyinka a brother and comrade in the struggle...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has been tasked on the immediate need to decisively fight corruption to halt the country’s possible drift into a major economic crisis amidst reports that Nigeria loses about $60billion every year to corruption. The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA...
President Bola Tinubu has said that democracy must be nurtured and sustained for Nigeria and Africa to make genuine progress and development. Mr Dele Alake, Special Adviser to the President on Special Duties, Communications and Strategy, said the President stated this in Abuja when he received leaders of the...
Senate on Thursday at plenary confirmed the appointment of Service Chiefs, nominated by President Bola Tinubu. Senates’ confirmation was sequel to the consideration and approval of a motion brought by Senate Majority leader, Sen. Opeyemi Bamidela (APC-Ekiti) on confirmation of the shortlisted service chiefs. The service chiefs confirmed are:...
The First Lady, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, and Vice President Kashim Shettima have performed symbolic planting of trees in commemoration of the Inaugural Great Green Wall (GGW) Day celebration. The duo conducted the exercise on Thursday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, as part of the GGW Day 2023 celebration. The...
Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal, says the state he inherited was bankrupt when he took over power. Lawal, who stated this on Wednesday evening at an interactive session with Zamfara professionals in Abuja, said that the state was in in a bad state when he assumed office. “I believe...
Members of the House of Representatives are demanding an upward review of their salaries and allowances, following the removal of fuel subsidy and the current economic situation in the country. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the demand was the outcome of meeting the lawmakers had on...
The Taraba Government has begun negotiations with a consortium of six Nigerian banks to secure a facility worth N150 billion naira for projects. Gov. Agbu Kefas of Taraba made this known while presiding over the negotiation process with representatives of the banks in Abuja. Kefas said the banks have...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Tajudeen Abbas is to unveil committees and their chairmen to run the legislative agenda of the 10th Assembly on July 27. Also, members are to receive their official cars once the standing committees are constituted. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
The construction firm handling the renovation of the National Assembly Complex, Visible Construction Ltd., has assured users of the complex of stoppage of leaking points soon. Project Engineer, Mr Tajudeen Olanipekun gave the assurance on Wednesday while reacting to report made by some bloggers on rain water leakages at...
A financial expert, Prof. Uche Uwaleke, has described as commendable, President Bola Tinubu’s request for legislative approval of N500 billion as palliatives to cushion removal of petrol subsidy. Uwaleke, a Professor of Capital Market at the Nasarawa State University, Keffi, said this in an interview with the News Agency...
Brig.-Gen. Obinna Onubogu, on Wednesday assumed duty as the 21st Commandant of Martin Luther Agwai International Leadership and Peacekeeping Centre (MLAILPKC) Jaji, Kaduna State. Onubogu took over from Maj.-Gen. Emmanuel Undaindeye who was appointed by President Bola Tinubu as Chief of Defence intelligence. In his address before the handover, Undaindeye thanked...
Olu Verheijen, the Special Adviser to the President on Energy, said on Wednesday that the development of gas was a priority for the President Bola Tinubu administration. Verheijen said this at the opening of the “Decade of Gas” secretariat in Abuja. “It has been a long journey with gas...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday in Abuja assured Nigerians that the framework for palliatives to remedy the effects of fuel subsidy removal is being worked out, explaining that the decision to phase out the subsidy was taken in the best interest of the...
Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has said that literary giant and Nobel Laureate, Prof. Oluwole Soyinka, remains Nigeria’s pride, as he clocks 89 years. Soyinka, a 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature winner and the first sub-Saharan African to be honoured in that category, clocks 89 on Thursday, July...
President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, met with the class of 1999 Governors at the council chamber of the Aso Villa, Abuja. The ex-governors were at the State House to identify with Tinubu, who was the governor of Lagos State from May 1999 to 2007, and to express solidarity...
President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, met with the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulkarim Chukkol, at the Aso Villa in Abuja. Wednesday’s meeting occurred about four weeks after the President suspended Abdulrasheed Bawa indefinitely as the anti-graft agency boss on June 14, 2023....
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has identified poverty as major determinant of whether a child has access to immunisation against vaccine-preventable disease or not. The fund disclosed this in its ‘State of The World’s Children 2023’ report, adding that there are millions of such children in Africa, referred to...
The President and members of the Senate have congratulated President Bola Tinubu on his emergence as the Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The News Agency of Nigeria ((NAN) reports that Tinubu emerged at the recently concluded 63rd Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads...