TEXT OF DEMOCRACY DAY NATIONAL BROADCAST BY PRESIDENT BOLA AHMED TINUBU ON JUNE 12, 2023. Fellow Nigerians,
President Bola Tinubu
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...
A civil society group, Justice and Equity Forum, has urged President Bola Tinubu not allow interested individuals to interfere in the ongoing investigation of former Ekiti Governor, Kayode Fayemi by the anti-graft Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged money laundering. The forum made the call in a...
President Bola Tinubu on Thursday met with a group of aggrieved politicians within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) known as the G5 or the Integrity Group. In attendance at the meeting at the Aso Rock are one serving governor and four former governors within the party. They are Governor...
Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State has opened conversations on the release of the self-acclaimed leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu requesting President Bola Tinubu to give the matter utmost consideration to extend hand of fellowship to the South-East people. Mbah told State House...
Tinubu assents to constitutional amendment bill on uniformity in retirement age of judicial officers
Tinubu assents to constitutional amendment bill on uniformity in retirement age of judicial officers
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – In exercising the powers vested in him under the 1999 Constitution as amended, President Bola Tinubu on Thursday at the State House assented to a fresh amendment of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. President Tinubu signed into law the “Constitution of...
Katsina State Governor, Dikko Radda, said the appointments of two key leadership positions in President Bola Tinubu led administration were well deserved. Tinubu had appointed Femi Gbajabiamila, ex-Speaker of House of Representatives as Chief of Staff and Sen George Akume as Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF)....
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has reassured elected members of the incoming 10th National Assembly that his administration remains firm on the choices of candidates for presiding officers’ position made by the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The President stated this on Wednesday night when he met...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – State Governors on Wednesday expressed strong support for President Bola Tinubu’s decision to end fuel subsidy payments in the country and other early policy initiatives of the administration. The governors, who took turns to speak when the President hosted members of the Nigerian Governors’...