By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has approved the payment of N12 billion outstanding backlog that the Federal Government owed the Super Eagles and other sporting teams of the country. The president’s approval was contained in a statement issued on Sunday via the X handle of...
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By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Niger State Governor, Mr Umar Bago, has said farmers now desire to return to their farms in the state, saying most of them are already back to farm. Governor Bago added that he had offered to pilot the planned 500,000 hectares of agricultural...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – A railway policy professional, Mr Olawale Rasheed has made a passionate appeal to President Bola Tinubu and the Federal Executive Council to implement urgent reform of the Nigerian Railway Corporation to solve national transport challenges and jumpstart the nation’s economy. In series of tweets...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has approved three airlines – Air Peace Ltd., FlyNas and Max Air – to serve as exclusive carriers for the 2024 Hajj pilgrimage. Assistant Director, Public Affairs, National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON), Mrs Fatima Sanda-Usara, made this known in...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has asked the nation’s security chiefs to ensure that there is conclusive victory against the myriad of security threats assailing the country. Addressing security chiefs and heads of intelligence agencies at a Presidential Security Briefing at the State House, in Abuja,...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has celebrated the ingenuity, creativity, and immense artistic talents of Nigeria’s thriving entertainment industry. In a statement by Presidential spokesman, Chief Ajuri Ngelale, Tinubu also congratulated Ms Funke Akindele on her record-setting film and commends the ace thespian for...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has called on members of the National Assembly (NASS) to ensure proper distribution of thousands of bags of rice and other foodstuffs recently given to them for sharing by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. MURIC said this in a...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of new Executive Directors in two agencies under the Federal Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy. A statement on Thursday in Abuja by the presidential spokesman, Chief Ajuri Ngelale, said the appointments are in the Nigerian...
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Daniel Bwala, on Tuesday, said opposition political parties will come together to form a strong coalition that will wrest power from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2027 general elections. Bwala, who was a guest on Channels...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has charged Nigerians to remain steadfast with President Bola Tinubu as he strive to deliver on his promise of improving the living conditions of all citizens. The APC’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr Felix Morka, said this in...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has been commended for allocating N100bn for school feeding programme in the 2024 budget. The Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on School Feeding Programme (SFP), Dr Yetunde Adeniji, gave the commendation in a statement issued on Tuesday in...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Nigerian Coalition of Civil Society Organizations (NCCSO) has applauded President Bola Tinubu for approving the immediate suspension and investigation of the National Coordinator and CEO of the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA), Halima Shehu, over alleged financial impropriety. The commendation...
President Bola Tinubu has approved immediate suspension and thorough investigation of the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA), Halima Shehu and the Director Of Finance, Mr Hamza Buwai as corruption allegation rocks NSIPA. Recently appointed National Coordinator, National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA), Halima Shehu has been...
President Bola Tinubu has signed the 2024 Appropriation Bill into law in keeping with his avowed commitment to maintaining a timeous, predictable and efficient budget cycle. Tinubu assented to the bill at the State House on Monday, shortly after returning to Abuja from Lagos. Speaking at...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday slammed President Bola Tinubu over his New Year address, describing it as a “harvest of deceit, false claims and empty promises”. In his nationwide broadcast to Nigerians on Monday, Tinubu urged the citizens not to falter despite the tough times...
President Bola Tinubu, on Monday in Abuja, signed the 2024 appropriation bill of N28.78 trillion into law. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Tinubu signed the appropriation bill into law immediately after returning from the Christmas and New Year holidays in Lagos. At the...
President Bola Tinubu has said that none of his appointees would be allowed to give excuses for non-performance in their assigned duties and responsibilities. In a New Year address to the nation on Monday in Lagos, Tinubu said that he had pledged to serve the country and would...
President Bola Tinubu has said he will continue to work toward a better Nigeria to justify the trust placed on him by electing him into office in February 2023. The President, who stated this in a New Year message on Monday in Lagos, said that justifying that trust...
President Bola Tinubu has said that the Federal Government would implement a new national living wage for industrious workers in 2024. He said that the decision was not only for good economic sense but “because it is the morally and politically correct thing to do”. In a New...