By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asserted that the speech by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over the on-going protests in the country clearly confirms the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration’s insensitivity towards Nigerians and the very precarious situation in the country. The National...
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By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has congratulated the founder and Chairman of BUA Group, Alhaji Abdul Rabiu on the occasion of his birthday, August 4. President Tinubu in a statement by his spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, described Rabiu as an accomplished businessman and ardent philanthropist. He also...
Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has faulted the nationwide address by President Bola Tinubu, saying it failed to address the brutal crackdown of #EndBadGovernance protesters by security agencies. Angry Nigerians had taken to major cities across the country to lament the high cost of living, hardship, hunger, and...
By BAYO DAVIDS, Abuja – Former Director of Strategy and Communication to President Goodluck Jonathan, Mr. Jackson Ude, has picked holes in President Bola Tinubu’s Sunday nationwide broadcast to the nation on the ongoing protest over poor governance and increasing hardship. The protest which commenced on Thursday,...
I set my alarm clock for this morning to ensure that I did not miss President Bola Tinubu’s impatiently awaited address to the nation on the current unrest across the nation. His outline of government’s remedial action since inception, aimed at warding off just such an outbreak, will...
The Gani Fawehinmi Park, Ojota in Lagos State, was empty of #Endbadgovernance protesters, following President Bola Tinubu’s Sunday morning broadcast, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. A NAN Correspondent who visited the park on Sunday observed that 80 per cent of the security personnel, particularly, the Police,...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has congratulated D’Tigress for qualifying for the quarter-final of the women’s basketball at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The National senior women’s basketball team became the first ever African team (Male or Female) to make qualify for the quarterfinals at the Olympics...
A former Presidential Spokesperson, Dr Doyin Okupe, has said President Bola Tinubu has not disappointed Nigerians in his address to the nation on the nationwide protests on Sunday. Okupe, a former Director-General of the Labour Party (LP) Presidential Campaign Council, made this remark in an interview with the...
President Bola Tinubu has said the N200 billion Consumer Credit Corporation established by his administration would make life easier for millions of households. The President said this in a national broadcast on Sunday on the ongoing nationwide protest. He said the aim of the scheme was to help...
President Bola Tinubu has urged youths to key into the student loan scheme introduced by his administration. The President made the appeal in a national broadcast on Sunday on the ongoing nationwide protest. He said his administration had shown commitment to the youth by setting up the student...
This was published on 10/05/2024, precisely five months ago. Was I clairvoyant? No, the signs were there for all to see. Did anybody give a hoot? Hmmmmn! Well, here is a repeat. I do not want to believe that in a country of nearly 250 million people, I am...
BROADCAST BY HIS EXCELLENCY BOLA AHMED TINUBU, PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE NATIONWIDE PROTEST SUNDAY 4TH AUGUST 2024 My fellow Nigerians, I speak to you today with a heavy heart and a sense of responsibility, aware of the...
President Bola Tinubu said he took the painful decision to remove fuel subsidy and abolish multiple foreign exchange rates because they had impeded the economic development and progress of the nation. The president said this in a national broadcast on Sunday on the ongoing nationwide protest. He said...
President Bola Tinubu has said his government is committed to listening to and addressing the concerns of citizens of the country. The president gave the assurance in a national broadcast on Sunday on the ongoing nationwide protest. Tinubu said he had heard Nigerians, especially the youth, saying: “I...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has called on Nigerians to halt the ongoing #EndBadGovernance protests and instead engage in constructive dialogue. President Tinubu in a televised address on Sunday, emphasized that his administration will not permit a small group of politically motivated individuals to disrupt the...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja- President Bola Tinubu will address the nation in a live broadcast on Sunday, August 4, 2024, at 7:00 a.m. amid nationwide protests against bad governance. The president’s address comes at a critical time when Nigerians are taking to the streets to demand better governance...
The nationwide End-Hunger Protest, also known as the End-Bad-Government Protest, has officially begun and is sweeping the country, causing deaths and damage in its wake. And there’s the worry that the worst might yet come. Due to the ethnic profiling that a president’s spokesperson brought into it, which...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has flayed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for his failure to address the nation despite the crippling nationwide #EndBadGovernance protest by Nigerians. This is contained in a statement issued on Saturday in Abuja by the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Hon. Debo Ologunagba. Hon. Ologunagba...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday extended his condolences to the family of the late Ms Onyeka Onwenu, who was a singer, songwriter, actor, journalist, activist, and politician. The President in a statement on Monday by his spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, said her edifying and mellifluous...
Vice-President Kashim Shettima has said contrary to speculations in some quarters, President Bola Tinubu is neither anti-north nor anti-islam. Shettima said this on Tuesday during a courtesy visit by representatives of media practitioners from the northern part of the country at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He said that President...