The Senate has confirmed the appointment of Mr Zaccheus Adedeji as the Executive Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS). This follows the adoption of a motion by the Senate Leader, Sen. Opeyemi Bamidele (APC-Ekiti) at the Committee of the Whole on Tuesday. Presenting the motion, Bamidele urged the...
President Bola Tinubu
President Bola Tinubu has intervened in the crisis rocking the executive and the legislature in Rivers. Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State stated this while briefing State House Correspondents after a closed-door session with Tinubu, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Tuesday. “We had a...
President Bola Tinubu, has presented the 2023 Supplementary Budget of N2.1 trillion to the National Assembly. The request was contained in a letter to the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, at plenary on Tuesday. The letter reads: “It has now become necessary to make further provision for additional palliative...
All Progressives Congress (APC) States Assembly Forum (ASAF) has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to intervene in the crisis rocking the executive and the legislature in Rivers. The forum said in a statement by its Director-General, Mr Fubara Dagogo on Tuesday in Abuja. Dagogo said that the development...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on all actors in the Rivers crisis to sheathe their swords and allow for amicable resolution of the problem. Thee National Publicity Secretary, Mr Debo Ologunagba stated this in a...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has commiserated with the Nwabueze family, the government and people of Anambra State, on the death of Professor Ben Nwabueze, one time minister of education. Tinubu, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Chief Ajuri...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has advised former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Candidate in the Feb. 25 presidential election, to accept his defeat as an elder statesman. The APC National Publicity Secretary, Mr Felix Morka, gave...
Tinub President Bola Tinubu on Monday warned government officials and family members against attending the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting without invitation. Tinubu issued the warning before the commencement of FEC meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. “Last week, I noticed people sneaking in and out of this council....
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – A forum of security experts in Nigeria at the weekend charged the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to release all the political prisoners in custody of the Federal Government and ensure that national integration is strengthened. The security experts made the call while...
President Bola Tinubu, on Sunday solicited the support of German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, in combating terrorism in Nigeria. Tinubu made the request at a bilateral meeting with the German Chancellor at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Sunday. “We are fighting terrorism and that is improving. We still need more...
President Bola Tinubu has said his administration is working assiduously to reform the nation’s economic and business environment to promote efficiency. Tinubu said this on Sunday during a bilateral meeting with the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Olaf Scholz and his entourage, in the Presidential Villa,...
President Bola Tinubu is confronted with two identity fights united by politics. His political opponents have kept him busy with matters of personal identity and paper qualifications. Everything from his parentage, educational background, university records, work and career trajectory to his National Youth Service record is up for hostile...
President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Mr Ola Olukoyede as the Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Chief Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. This is for a renewable...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the appointment of new leadership across the communications, innovation and digital economy sectors in Nigeria. The president’s approval was contained in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja by his spokesman Ajuri Ngelale. Ngelale added...
President Bola Tinubu does not have identity problem and does not require re-introduction, the All Progressives Congress (APC) declared in Abuja on Wednesday. It was reacting to an insinuation made earlier on Wednesday by Mr Peter Obi, Labour Party’s (LP) presidential candidate at the 2023 election at a...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has requested the House of Representatives’ confirmation of appointment for the positions of Chairman and members of the Governing Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The President’s request is contained in a letter addressed to the Speaker...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday directed an immediate plan of action to stem the tide of impending flooding across the country. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Communications, Office of the Vice President, Mr Stanley Nkwocha, made this known...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of five people to serve in the Office of the President under the Media and Publicity Directorate. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, disclosed this in a statement...
The Alliance for Good Governance and Due Process, has queried the alleged plan by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to appoint Mr. Olanipekun Olukoyede as the substantive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC). The group, in a statement issued on in Abuja on Monday, said the alleged...
The Muslim Rights Concern on Monday, sent a Save Our Soul(SOS) message to President Bola Tinubu over the deplorable condition of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway. The Lagos and Ogun Chairmen of the group, Dr Busari Ademola and Alhaji Jimoh Alao, in a statement said that the 81km federal highway...