The Labour Party (LP) has dismissed the video making the rounds in the social media that its leadership was partnering with President Bola Tinubu ahead of 2027 general elections. National Publicity Secretary, LP, Mr Obiora Ifoh, said this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. According to Ifoh, the...
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By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Former Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has criticized President Bola Tinubu over the recent loan proposal. Alhaji Abubakar expressed his concerns about the World Bank’s report, which shows Nigeria as the third most indebted country to the International...
A former Director-General of the Labour Party (LP) Presidential Campaign, Dr Doyin Okupe, has said the 2023 Presidential election was not rigged by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Okupe, a former spokesman for President Olusegun Obasanjo and President Goodluck Jonathan, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in...
Senate on Thursday at plenary approved the new external borrowing plan request of $2.2billion dollars presented for consideration by President Bola Tinubu. The approval followed adoption of report of Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts. The report was presented by the Chairman of the Committee Sen. Aliyu Wammako...
President Bola Tinubu has called on the military across Africa to unite in addressing insecurity and other threats to the continent’s unity and stability. Tinubu, represented by the Vice-President Kashim Shettima, made the call on Wednesday while declaring open the second edition of the Africa Military Games (AMGA) at...
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Yusuf Tuggar, has said that one of the highlights of the 19th G20 Leaders Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was the UN tax resolution championed by Nigeria. He said Nigeria put forward the tax reform on behalf of the other African countries, and...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has called o northern leaders and citizens to emulate the virtues of the former Premier of Northern Nigeria, Sir Ahmadu Bello popularly known as the Sardauna of Sokoto. President Tinubu, who was represented by VP Kashim Shettima, made the...
The Federal Government has revealed plan to establish a National Youth Development Bank and a Youth Data Bank. President Bola Tinubu, represented by his vice, Kashim Shettima, disclosed this on Wednesday during a Stakeholders Roundtable on Northern Youth Development organised by the Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation, in Abuja,...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja- Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has landed in Abuja on Saturday night. He was received by FCT Minister Nyesom Wike and the Nigeria’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Bianca Ojukwu. His visit to Nigeria will be the first by an Indian prime minister since...
The Rivers Restoration Movement (RRM) has dismissed claims that President Bola Tinubu is taking sides in the political crises in Rivers. A former leader of Niger-Delta agitators, Alhaji Asari Dokubo, had accused Tinubu of supporting the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, to destabilise the administration of...
President Bola Tinubu, Vice President Kashim Shettima, Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Speaker of the House of Representatives Tajudeen Abbas, and First Lady Oluremi Tinubu, on Friday, paid their last respects to the late Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, who passed away on November 5 at the age...
Vice-President Kashim Shettima on Thursday announced that President Bola Tinubu has approved the establishment of a new Disaster Relief Fund to strengthen Nigeria’s humanitarian response system. Shettima made this known at the launch of the Humanitarian Supply Chain Management – Partnership for Localisation Project, held at the Presidential Villa,...
President Bola Tinubu has described members of opposition parties in the country as reactionary politicians. Tinubu stated this, on Wednesday in Akure, at the grand finale of the campaign rally for Gov. Lucky Aiyedatiwa, the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Ondo state in Saturday’s election. The President,...
The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr Wale Edun, says the Federal Government will soon begin payment of pension backlog. Edun said this during a peaceful rally by the Nigeria Union of Pensioners Contributory Pension Scheme Sector (NUPCPS) at the Federal Ministry of Finance in...
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has said President Bola Tinubu is entrenching good governance through the Renewed Hope Agenda. Wike stated this in Abuja on Tuesday, when he inspected the ongoing construction of five-kilometre Saburi – Dei Dei road, awarded to Lubrik Construction Company in...
The Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Lateef Fagbemi, has said that no law in Nigeria prohibits the prosecution of minors. Fagbemi stated this in Abuja on Thursday while briefing journalists regarding a recent court order to release about 114 #EndBadGovernance protesters (minors and adults) who...
President Bola Tinubu said on Friday that the passing of Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, former Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation had cost Nigeria a committed patriot and elder statesman. Tinubu said this at Uburu, Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi during the burial ceremony of the deceased who passed...
Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Sen. George Akume, has tasked the newly appointed ministers to uphold national interest and shun personal and sectional interests. Akume gave the charge at the opening of a 2-day induction retreat organised by his office for the appointees on Thursday in...
Vice- President Kashim Shettima has implored the 119 released minors to strive to be responsible citizens as they unite with their families in Kano and Kaduna States. Shettima made the call while handing over the 119 released minors to Gov. Abba Yusuf of Kano and Gov. Uba Sani of...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday, struck out the treason charge preferred against the minors who participated in the August #EndBadGovernance protest following its withdrawal by the Federal Government. Justice Obiora Egwuatu struck out the charge after the application for the discontinuance was moved by Mr Mohammed...