Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation Betta Edu has said her nomination as a minister was an answer to her late last year prayer at Shiloh 2022. Shiloh, a yearly event by the Living Faith Church better known as Winners’ Chapel, attracts millions of Christian faithful in...
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Vice President Kashim Shettima on Friday assured that the President Bola Tinubu led administration would restore peace in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau within the shortest possible time. Shettima gave the assurance when he played host to a traditional ruler from Mangu, the Mishkahan Mwaghavul, John Hirse,...
Vice President Kashim Shettima on Monday said that President Bola Tinubu’s administration was working assiduously to change the country’s economic fortune. Shettima stated this when he received the management of the National Institute for Security Studies (NISS) led by its Commandant, Alhaji Ayodele Adeleke, at the Presidential Villa,...
More than 1,000 Islamic clerics have offered special prayers for President Bola Tinubu and the NNPP National Leader, Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso, for peace, progress and political stability in the country. Rep. Abdulmumin Kofa (NNPP-Kiru/Bebeji), who hosted the Ulamas at Kiru, for the success of Gov. Kabir Yusuf of...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy, Mr Bayo Onanuga, has called on the presidential candidate of the PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to stop their campaigns of calumny and blackmail against the judiciary. Mr. Onanuga stated this in a...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has pledged to improve the quality of education and foster intellectual growth across the country. The president, who was represented by Vice President Kashim Shettima, stated this on Saturday during the 24th Combined Convocation ceremony of University...
Section 14(2)(b) of the Constitution of the Federal republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) declares that the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government. It is this primary purpose that provides the basis for approbation of and association with government by the...
By BARBARA KALU, Owerri – The Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide, has urged Imo residents to ignore sit-at-home order on election day but to come out en-mass to cast their votes for any candidate of their choice. President General Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, made the call in...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu on Thursday in Abuja appealed to all candidates participating in the November 11 gubernatorial elections in Bayelsa, Imo, and Kogi States, as well as the electorate to ensure free and fair elections. The President made the appeal at the...
The House of Representatives has rejected the N4.79bn budgetary allocation for a presidential yacht contained in the N2.176trn supplementary budget for the 2023 financial year transmitted to it on Tuesday by President Bola Tinubu. In passing the supplementary budget on Thursday, the House moved the sum proposed for...
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has warned against any attempt to tamper with the political structure in Rivers. Wike gave the warning after a closed-door meeting with members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum, led by its Chairman, Gov. Bala...
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, said on Tuesday that building a viral economy for the country transcended political party affiliations. Wiki stated this when leaders of ethnic groups from the Niger Delta region paid him a solidarity visit in Abuja. The minister...
The 2023 Supplementary Appropriation Bill of N2.1 trillion expeditiously scaled second reading on Tuesday in the Senate. President Bola Tinubu had written the Senate seeking the approval of the sum of N2,176,791,286,033 as 2023 supplementary budget to address labour wage adjustments, security and other urgent issues. The President...
President Bola Tinubu has warned government officials and family members against attending the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting without invitation. Tinubu issued the warning before the commencement of the FEC meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Monday. “Last week, I noticed people sneaking in and out of this...
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has applied for leave of the Supreme Court to file what he termed as fresh evidence. In a motion he filed through his team of lawyers, Atiku said the evidence he is seeking to tender before...
Vice President Kashim Shettima, has directed the Investment in Digital and Creative Enterprises (i-DICE) team to ensure that the programme commences before the end of November. Shettima gave the directive on Friday when the i-DICE team updated him on the progress made so far, at a meeting in...
The Federal Government has announced a special grant of N25,000 each under its Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Scheme to vulnerable pensioners in the country. Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, announced this when she met with the leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC),...
The Federal Government and labour unions rose from their meeting on Sunday with an agreement that all categories of workers should benefit from the provisional wage increment announced by President Bola Tinubu in his Independence Day nationwide broadcast. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the president...