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In his maiden New Year address to the nation, President Bola Tinubu, on Monday, said he took difficult steps at reforming Nigeria’s economy to avert a looming fiscal crisisHe assured Nigerians that the harsh economic realities would not last long, as his reforms would yield the desired results ...

As Christians all of the world commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ, President Bola Tinubu has reminded Nigerians that it was a period for people to look out for one another.President Tinubu also said he was aware that the necessary reforms his administration was implementing to achieve a more ...

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike,  on Sunday, attacked Rivers elders for taking sides with Governor Siminalayi Fubara in the unfolding political crisis in the state.While accusing the elders of seeking selfish interests, Wike warned people of the state against getting ...

Former governor of Sokoto State, Attahiru Bafarawa, shares his thoughts with CHUKWUDI AKASIKE on why the immediate past administration should be probed, local government funds and the political crisis in Rivers State, among other issuesNigerians are facing tough times currently because of the ...

The Federal Government has unveiled President Bola Tinubu’s 4D Policy to the World through the Diplomatic Corps in the country.The launch of 4D policy is one of the present administration’s vision to drive its transformative agenda and seeks to recalibrate Nigeria’s global engagement strategy. ...

On Wednesday, November 29, when President Bola Tinubu appeared before the joint session of the National Assembly to present the 2024 budget, Nigerians watched in utter amazement as the lawmakers rendered an allegiance song to the President.Their action is generating diverse reactions, with many ...

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory FCT, Ezenwo Nyesom Wike, has dismissed speculations that he could revive his presidential ambition in 2027, saying as a man who abhors disloyalty, he cannot contest against his boss, President Bola Tinubu.Noting that he remained committed to the ...

President Bola Tinubu has declared that his administration would certainly succeed in its effort to turn the country around and deliver on the expectations of Nigerians, who voted him into office.Tinubu spoke yesterday at the opening of a three-day retreat organised for ministers, presidential ...

A former presidential aspirant, Dele Momodu has said he paid back in thousand folds, the £500 given to him by Bola Tinubu during his exile days.Momodu was reacting to the various versions of his interview, where he had allegedly vowed to always support Tinubu.“The APC goons will never get ...

Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis, Stephen Angbulu,Solomon Odeniyi and Abdulrahman ZakariyauThe All Progressives Congress on Wednesday ridiculed the efforts of the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to obtain the academic records of President Bola Tinubu from the Chicago ...

By Dapo AkinrefonLAGOS—FORMER Deputy National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Bode George, yesterday, took a swipe at the economic policies of the Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government saying it is hurting Nigerians.He also warned the judiciary not to allow it to be used ...

By Racheal AyodelePresident Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed a University of Ibadan, UI, 400-level student, Orire Agbaje as member of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms.The committee was inaugurated on Tuesday in Abuja.The presidency in a tweet on Tuesday ...

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, ABUJAThe Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja, yesterday reserved its judgement on petitions seeking to remove President Bola Tinubu from office.The Justice Haruna Tsammani-led five-member panel of the court, okayed the cases for judgement, ...

By Ifreke InyangThe candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 2023 presidential election and now President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Ahmedu Tinubu, stirred the hornet’s nest recently when he cautioned the Presidential ...

By Ikechukwu NnochiriThe Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja, on Friday, reserved its judgement on the petition the Allied Peoples Movement, APM, filed to nullify the election of President Bola Tinubu. The five-member panel of the court led by Justice Haruna Tsammani, ...

•‘It is wicked to say President is out to Islamize Nigeria’Bishop Charles Ighele is a former Chairman of the Financial Accountability Commission of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN). Ighele, who is also the General Superintendent of Holy Spirit Mission (also known as the Happy Family ...

By Seun OpejobiThe 2023 African Action Congress, AAC, presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has reacted to the report of President Bola Tinubu giving mouth watering retirement package to the sacked Service Chiefs.Sowore suggested that Tinubu gave the sacked Service Chiefs the ...

President Bola Tinubu says he will not partake in the economic destruction of the country by enemies of the nation.He said the bleeding of the country through the oil subsidy regime was a huge joke that should never be allowed to continue under any guise.The president stated this on ...

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru, AbujaPresident Bola Tinubu yesterday warned against the social and structural stigmatization of drug use victims.According to him, this prevents the victims from accessing needed care and support.The President spoke as chairman of MTN Foundation, Julius Adelusi- ...

By  Mike Oyebola Real Madrid defender, David Alaba paid a visit to Nigeria’s number one citizen, Bola Ahmed Tinubu in France on Friday. Tinubu was in France to attend the Global Financial Pact Summit, hosted by President Emmanuel Macron. Alaba was received by President Tinubu during a diaspora ...

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, ABUJAFormer Vice President and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, who is seeking to nullify the election of President Bola Tinubu, on Friday, closed his case before the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja.Atiku, ...

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, ABUJAThe Presidential Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja yesterday admitted in evidence a bundle of exhibits containing the total number of Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, collected in 32 states of the federation before the 2023 general elections.Equally admitted in ...

By Ikechukwu NnochiriFollowing a summon issued on him, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, yesterday produced before the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja, a document that contained President Bola Tinubu’s age.The ...

For a man who has successfully pinned down his Lagos political rivals to submission, suggestions as to whether President Bola Tinubu could transform Nigeria into his political image is now a matter of debate.Considering the cavalier surrender of the likes of Chief Bode George, and before then, ...

By Williams Anuku President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has suspended the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele from office with immediate effect. According to a terse statement by Willie Bassey Director, Information Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation on Friday ...

The Depots and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPPMAN) yesterday in Abuja pledged its support for the Federal Government’s removal of fuel subsidies. The association’s chairperson, Dame Winifred Akpani, who made the disclosure at the end of a meeting with President Bola ...

MORE facts have  emerged on how the Federal Government used  blackmail and other mechanisms and ambushed Organised Labour to suspend its planned strike over the removal of subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, commonly known as petrol.Leaders of Organised Labour had Monday night suspended the ...

Dirisu Yakubu and Adebayo Folorunsho-FrancisThe Peoples Democratic Party has called on President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima to take a cue from the late President Umaru Yar’ Adua by publicly declaring their assets as a demonstration of their determination to lead by example. ...

By  Amarachi OkehPresident Bola Tinubu has promised to review the minimum wage to align with the current economic realities of the country.According to him, the federal and state governments need to take a look at the minimum wage together and also strengthen the source and application of ...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday congratulated President Bola Tinubu on his inauguration as the 16th Nigerian President.The Spokesperson for the UN Secretary General Stephane Dujarric said this while fielding question from the Newsmen at UN headquarters in New York.“Nigeria ...

As President Bola Ahmed Tinubu took oath of office yesterday, King Charles III of the United Kingdom, Tuesday sent a congratulatory message to him and his vice president Kashim Shettima.In a statemen, King Charles said he looked forward to building a deeper relationship between the UK and ...

By Williams Anuku Newly sworn-in President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has abolished fuel subsidy in Nigeria, saying it is no longer sustainable. He gave the directive at the Eagle Square Abuja while delivering his maiden address to Nigerians. “On fuel subsidy, the budget I met before I assumed office ...

By Williams Anuku The President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has been administered with the oath of office by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Olukayode Ariwoola. This is coming a few minutes after the Vice President-elect, Kashim Shettima, was also administered the oath of office. He was sworn-in ...

By  Adebayo Folorunsho-FrancisThe presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, says it will be ‘extremely weird’ of him to attend the swearing-in ceremony of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.Obi, who spoke through his aide, Tai Obasi, also denied planning a demonstration ahead ...

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru,AbujaPresident-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Sunday night, told Nigerians that he applied to be the President, hence, he would live up to expectations and deliver on his promises.The President-elect said he would set Nigeria back on the path of growth, poverty, and ...

By  Gbenga OloniniranThe Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has said he will never call the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, his president.The cleric and politician, during a webinar on Saturday, alleged a series of malpractices during the 2023 ...

By Dapo AkinrefonIn line with tradition, President-elect Bola Tinubu is expected to make his first appointments after being sworn in as President tomorrow by the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola.There are at least three appointments that ordinarily should be made ...

Special Report by Dr Ugoji EgbujoHe said it was his turn. Jagaban will now be tested. At the start of the 4th republic, he had passed the test in Lagos.While Lagos can pass for a miniature Nigeria, the political temperaments are different. In 2023 Nigeria, teeming with hungry and ...

By Williams AnukuPresident Muhammadu Buhari and his successor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu were on Friday, spotted together going round the Presidential Villa.The tour around the seat of power is to familiarise the incoming President, with the workings of the State House, from where he would preside ...

By  Hannah JohnsonFast-rising singer, Habeeb Okikiola, better known as Portable, on Friday, lamented that organisers of the Tinubu inauguration concert offered him N5 million instead of N10m for his performance.According to him, that was the reason why he failed to perform at the concert ...

President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, said yesterday he understands the magnitude of the tasks ahead as he prepares to take on the mantle of leadership, assuring that he would not disappoint Nigerians and President Muhammadu Buhari.Tinubu spoke, yesterday, after being conferred with the Grand ...

By Francis Ugwu The Supreme Court has adjourned until May 26 to deliver judgment in a case by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seeking the disqualification of President-elect, Sen. Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima, the vice-president-elect. The PDP had urged the apex court to reverse the Court ...

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has listed key areas of focus to the incoming administration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu and with emphasis on federal character.The Christian body specifically noted that the in-coming administration must make good use of faith leaders to seek genuine peace ...

Five residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have filed a suit at the Federal High Court, Abuja, demanding an order to stop the swearing-in of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, on May 29, for failing to secure at least 25 percent of votes cast in the FCT. Tinubu of the All Progressives ...

Executive Chairman, Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Mohammed Shehu, has said the monthly salary of the Nigerian President currently stands at N1.2 million, while that of Governors is pegged at N1.1 million.He said President-elect, Bola Tinubu, would earn the same ...

Experts loud on what he must do before subsidy goesAs Nigeria moves closer to the end of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration amidst severe economic woes, experts have continued to air their views regarding the best way forward for the incoming government.Top on the discussion is the ...

President-elect Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has promised to provide Nigerian workers with a "living wage" that exceeds the minimum wage. In a statement issued on May 1, 2023, to mark the Workers' Day celebration, Tinubu pledged to prioritize social and economic justice for all Nigerians, including ...

By  Adebayo Folorunsho-FrancisGovernor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State and his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike, paid a courtesy visit to the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, at the Defence House on Friday.The development came two months after the former Lagos State governor, ...

By Ishola OludareThe pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, has insisted that it would continue to support what it called “the victory of Peter Obi” of the Labour Party in the February 25 presidential election and all his endeavours in its realisation.Afenifere reiterated that the ...