A former Director-General of the Labour Party (LP) Presidential Campaign Council, Dr Doyin Okupe, says he is not a member of the ruling APC but appreciates the bold reforms being implemented by President Bola Tinubu. Okupe, a former Presidential Spokesperson, disclosed this in X handle (formerly Twitter) while...
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President Bola Tinubu has congratulated Justice Stella Anukam on her re-election as a Judge of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights for another term of six years. In a statement on Saturday by his spokesman, Chief Ajuri Ngelale, the president said Anukam was re-elected at...
President Bola Tinubu has directed security agencies to improve the security architecture to ensure the production of 2.1 million barrels of crude oil per day. Gen. Christopher Musa, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), said this while briefing State House correspondents, after a meeting with President Tinubu on Friday....
President Bola Tinubu on Friday said the Federal Government would ensure that investments in key sectors of the economy followed clear timelines and must impact the lives of citizens. President Tinubu, who received the management of the Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria (ALSCON), led by the Chairman,...
The alleged sexual abuse case involving the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is already before the highest staff disciplinary body, a top official has confirmed. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that foreign affairs minister Yusuf Tuggar had taken the matter to the Office of...
President Bola Tinubu will on Saturday, July 20, depart Abuja for Accra, Ghana to participate in the Sixth Mid-Year Coordination Meeting of the African Union (AU), the Regional Economic Communities (RECs), the Regional Mechanisms (RMs), and the African Union Member States. In his capacity as the Chairman...
Non-Governmental Organisation, Life After Abuse Foundation (LAAF) has called on the Federal Government to establish Nigeria’s first Ministry of Men Affairs, to address men’s urgent needs. LAAF’s President, Ms Halima Layeni, in a statement on Friday in Lagos, said that the establishment of the ministry would advance...
President Bola Tinubu on Thursday increased the Federal Government’s offer on the national minimum wage from N62,000 to N70,000, with an assurance that it will be reviewed after three years, instead of five years. Tinubu said he had to intervene in the negotiations, knowing the economic challenges faced...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Mrs. Didi Esther Walson-Jack, OON, as Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, with effect from August 14, 2024. This was contained in a statement signed by Special Adviser to the President on Media...
The Senate has rejected a motion seeking to take punitive measures against former chief whip, Ali Ndume, over a statement made during an interview where he referred to the Lawmakers as “kleptomaniacs”. The move was rejected when a point of order was raised by Senator Fasuyi Cyril representing...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – A non political group, Concerned Northern Forum of Nigeria (CNFN) has threw more weight behind Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume and Chief Whip at the Senate, who appeared last Thursday on Arise TV where he said, there is much hunger in the land under...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has commiserated with the National Assembly and the Kaduna State Government over the demise of Rep. Ekene Adams (LP-Kaduna). Adams, represented Chikun/Kajuru Federal Constituency of Kaduna State in the House of Representatives, died in the early hours of Tuesday at the...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has condemned the attack on former President of the United States, Donald Trump during a political rally in Pennsylvania. It would be recalled that Trump was attacked by an assassin days before he was due to accept the formal Republican nomination....
Tinubu, CDS The Arewa Concerned Citizens Forum (ACCF), has kicked against plans for nationwide protests by some persons in some parts of the country. The Kaduna-based group, in a press conference in Kaduna on Sunday, alleged that the proposed protests were being sponsored by “some individuals working against the...
.. The Senator representing Kogi West, Sunday Karimi has assured that the National Assembly would ensure full compliance by the various state governments the judgment on the financial autonomy granted the nation’s 774 Local Government Areas by the the Supreme Court Senator Karimi, who is the Chairman...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has extended his congratulations to Prince Nduka Obaigbena, CON, on the occasion of his 65th birthday. President Tinubu in a statement on Sunday, noted that the enterprising spirit of the former President of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN), who...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that the inability of Sen. Mohammed Ndume to access President Bola Tinubu cannot warrant or justify his outlandish declaration that the president had been “caged”. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr Felix Morka, said this in a statement on Saturday in...
President Bola Tinubu on Saturday appointed new leaders for key agencies in furtherance of his renewed hope agenda. The new appointments were announced in a statement by the President’s spokesman, Chief Ajuri Ngelale, on Saturday. The President approved the appointment of Dr Olufemi Adekanmbi as the new Project...
President Bola Tinubu’s horse named ‘Renewed Hope’ has won the ‘Hope Renewed 1st Year Anniversary Horse Racing Derby’ that ended in Kaduna on Saturday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the four-day epochal sports that opened on Thursday was organised by the Horse Racing Federation of...