Some Key players during the 1993 presidential election have called for a shift of Nigeria’s presidential inauguration day from May 29 to June 12. The key players who were panelists at the 2023 Democracy Day celebration, organised by the Tinubu Support Group (TSG), made the call on Monday in...
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Concerned Parents of Chibok Girls have appealed to President Bola Tinubu to help facilitate the release of 92 abducted girls still in Boko Haram’s captivity. The parents made the appeal in a a letter issued on Monday by Yana Galang (mother to Rifkatu Galang still in captivity) and Zanna...
Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State says some of his colleagues have resolved to support the choice of President Bola Tinubu for Senate President for the 10th National Assembly, scheduled for Tuesday. Makinde stated this on Monday in Ibadan during the post-second term inauguration interdenominational thanksgiving service, organised in his...
Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State, Mr Ade Adetimehin, has assured Nigerians that they will soon begin to reap the gains of the President Bola Tinubu-led administration ‘Renewed Hope Agenda’. Adetimehin, in his goodwill message on the 2023 Democracy Day issued in Akure, said that the pains which trailed...
Following repeated violence against political actors and the media in Kogi State in the march to the 2023 governorship election, Ukomu Igala Organization, a socio-political group in Kogi East Senatorial District, has written a petition to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to call Governor Yahaya Bello to order and halt...
The choice of Nigerians to elect a civilian leader to transit from the military rule was the seed that germinated into the longest democratic institution that the country is enjoying, says President Bola Tinubu. The president stated this during a National Broadcast to mark the June 12 Democracy Day on...
… Sure of Yari’s Vvctory as Senate President in 10th NASS leadership contest A national socio-political group, Women For Yari Movement (W4YM), has felicitated all Nigerians on the occasion of June 12 Democracy Day and appreciated His Excellency President Bola Ahmed Tinubu from dissociating himself from the now botched...
TEXT OF DEMOCRACY DAY NATIONAL BROADCAST BY PRESIDENT BOLA AHMED TINUBU ON JUNE 12, 2023. Fellow Nigerians,
A group, APC Voice of Progressive Youths, has alleged marginalisation of the North Central in the 10th senate leadership zoning arrangement by the APC and its national working committee, while urging President Bola Tinubu and the party for a review. The National Coordinator of the group, Abubakar Bagwai, made...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will broadcast to the nation on Monday, June 12, 2023, at 7am to commemorate this year’s Democracy Day. The State House Director of Information, Abiodun Oladunjoye, stated this in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja. “Television, radio stations, and other electronic media outlets...
INTRODUCTION With the abysmal fall in oil prices, high rise in oil bunkering and consequent decline of government revenue, compounded by the near nosedive of most economic activities occasioned by high profile corruption and financial leakages in the public service, I commend the president for his foresight in taking...
The Rt. Rev, Godwin Robinson, Bishop Lafia Diocese, Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) has advocated President Bola Tinubu’s urgent intervene in critical sectors including education and security, to ensure his administration’s maximum impact on Nigerians. Godwin made the call on Saturday, while delivering the Bishop’s Charge of the 3rd...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over “the failure to probe the allegations that USD$2.1 billion and N3.1 trillion public funds of oil revenues and budgeted as fuel subsidy payments are missing and unaccounted for between 2016 and 2019.” The...
Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has called two additional witnesses to further prove his allegation of malpractice at the Feb. 25 election. The two make a total of 18 witnesses he has so far called out of 100 witnesses planned for the exercise....
The Nigerian Women Trust Fund (NWTF) on Friday urged President Bola Tinubu to ensure the inclusion of women in the leadership positions at the 10th National Assembly. Mrs Mufuliat Fijabi, CEO, NWTF, made the call in a statement in Abuja. Fijabi lamented the alleged systemic exclusion of female senators-elect...
Dr Ahmed Audi, Commandant General (C-G), Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), has ordered Commandants in Niger Delta to rejig their anti-vandal units. A statement by Mr Olusola Odumosu, Director, Public Relations of the corps in Abuja on Friday, said that the C-G gave the order when he...
Nigeria women have tasked First Lady Oluremi Tinubu to use her office in advocating for women inclusion in President Bola Tinubu’s administration. The women in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday, congratulated the first lady on her assumption of office on Monday. They urged...
Dr Muda Yusuf, Chief Executive Officer, Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise (CPPE), says the suspension of Mr Godwin Emefiele as the CBN Governor is not a surprise. Yusuf in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Lagos, said the suspension showed that “President...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has suspended the Central Bank Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, CFR, from office with immediate effect. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Sen. George Akume, made this known in a statement on Friday in Abuja. According to the...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu on Friday in Abuja assured traditional rulers in the country that his administration will run an open-door policy that is ready to listen to the yearnings of Nigerians toward transforming the country’s rich potentials to reality. Speaking at an interactive session...