President Bola Tinubu has approved the request by the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, to name the Arterial Road N-20 after Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka. The Arterial Road N-20 stretched from Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Expressway to Outer Northern Expressway (Murtala Mohammed Expressway). Wike made the appeal in Abuja on...
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By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – The Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr Samuel Ogbuku, has assured that the Commission would not relent in implementing the Renewed Hope Agenda of the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for the benefit of Nigeria and the Niger...
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has said President Bola Tinubu is completing all ongoing projects to make Abuja residents comfortable. Wike stated this in Abuja on Monday, during the inauguration of the Outer Southern Expressway (OSEX) from the Villa Round about to...
President, Initiative for Leadership Development and Change (ILDC), Chief Ugochukwu Nnam, has said President Bola Tinubu and FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, have achieved a lot in the past one year. Nnam said this during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Wednesday. May...
There is a ticking time bomb in Kano and President Bola Tinubu has to move in quickly in a statesmanlike way to diffuse it. If centuries of upholding the tradition have brought peace to the ancient city just as we have in Ibadan, why uproot hundreds of years of...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The seemingly unending battle for political relevance and clientele attachment could lead to Sokoto missing out of the ongoing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s 75, 000 naira Renewed Hope Conditional Cash Transfer programme, investigation has revealed. Reports from our investigation confirmed that, part of...
The Minister of State for Youth Development, Mr Ayodele Olawande, has said that the student loan scheme is for youths to access interest-free facility for their educational pursuits in tertiary institutions. Olawande told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja that it was part of...
Members of the House of Representatives in the botched Third Republic have appealed to President Bola Tinubu to intervene in the payment of their outstanding salaries and allowances. The former lawmakers from the South-West states of Osun, Ogun, Oyo, Ondo and Lagos, made the plea during their meeting...
The Tinubu Stakeholders Forum (TSF) is drumming support for the Federal Government’s decision to take its advocacy for local government autonomy to the Supreme Court. In a statement jointly signed by its Chairman Ahmad Sajoh and Secretary Josiah Afolabi, the group was emphatic that full autonomy for local...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has appealed to state governments to prioritize the needs of local communities by ensuring accountability and effectiveness in the administration of local governments. The President made these remarks on Thursday at a meeting with the leadership of Arewa Consultative...
The Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has commended President Bola Tinubu for completing the interchange, connecting Wuye and Wuse district in Abuja. Wike gave the commendation during inauguration of the bridge by Tinubu on Thursday, as part of activities to celebrate the president’s one year...
President Bola Tinubu has requested the extension of the free ride on the Abuja Metro line to the end of the year. The FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, has offered commuters two months free ride during a pre-inauguration inspection tour of the project. Tinubu made the request on Wednesday...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – Popular social media critic, Reno Omokri, has expressed his disappointment and sadness about the decision to change Nigeria’s national anthem from “Arise, O Compatriots” to “Nigeria, We Hail Thee”, which was written by a British woman, Lillian Jean Williams. Mr. Omokri, a former Presidential...
President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday said that the 2025 appropriation bill would be ready before the National Assembly soon. The president disclosed this in Abuja, when he appeared at the joint sitting of the national assembly to celebrate the nation’s 25 years of unbroken democracy. “I will soon...
President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday inaugurated the National Assembly Library and Resource Centre in Abuja. The centre named after Tinubu was part of activities to mark the one year anniversary of the present administration in office. The Executive Secretary of the Centre, Mr Henry Nwawuba, described the library...
‘Nigeria not working’: One year of Tinubu is a cocktail of trial-and-error economic policies – Atiku
‘Nigeria not working’: One year of Tinubu is a cocktail of trial-and-error economic policies – Atiku
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The 2023 Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has criticized President Bola Tinubu’s economic policies, saying they have worsened Nigeria’s economic woes. Alhaji Atiku in a tweet on Wednesday, said Tinubu’s policies, aimed at remodeling the economy, have instead caused...
In President Tinubu’s first year in office, he had taken decisions that have caused short-term pains but will bring long-term gains. The first is the removal of subsidy. It is a courageous decision that is bearing fruit. Fuel imports are down more than 54%, and local refining is...
President Bola Tinubu will soon present the 2024 Supplementary Budget to the National Assembly (NASS). “I submitted the last budget to you,” the President said when he addressed a joint sitting of the National Assembly on Wednesday. “You expeditiously passed it. We are walking the talk. I will...
President Bola Tinubu has assented to the National Anthem Bill 2024 reverting to the old national anthem, “Nigeria, we hail thee”. Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, revealed this on Wednesday at a joint session of the National Assembly marking the Silver Jubilee Of Nigeria’s 4th Republic. President Bola Tinubu, who...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has said that the policy direction of President Bola Tinubu led Federal Government was aimed at repositioning the country and not to punish Nigerians. Senator Akpabio stated this in a statement to congratulate President Tinubu on successful completion of his...