President Bola Tiunbu has said that the removal of the oil subsidy by his administration was not to torment Nigerians but to save the country from total collapse. The president who announced the subsidy removal on the day of his inauguration on May 29, 2023, noted that the policy had been yielding positive results for…
President Bola Tinubu has celebrated former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as he marks his 78th birthday. In a statement issued on Tuesday by his Special Adviser on Media and Communications, Sunday Dare, the President described Atiku, who contested against him in the 2023 presidential election as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, as a…
Nigeria’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, has expressed confidence that President Bola Tinubu will release the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Speaking during the 13th memorial anniversary of the late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu in Owerri on Tuesday, Ambassador Ojukwu said she believes President…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has criticized President Bola Tinubu’s recent request for a ₦1.77 trillion ($2.2 billion) loan, describing it as “bone-crushing.” The Senate approved the loan after a voice vote in support of the request. However, Atiku argues that such loans will not benefit ordinary Nigerians and could have detrimental effects on the…
President Bola Tinubu has approved that ministers of state be given full powers to supervise the agencies under them. Until now, files pertaining to departments and agencies under their supervision were sent by their permanent secretaries to the senior ministers. With the new dispensation, ministers of state can now grant all necessary administrative approvals on…
Tinubu received the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Presidential Villa, Modi is the third Indian PM to Visit Nigeria. The last visit was by Dr Manmohan Singh who met President Umaru Musa YarAdua in October 2007 when both countries established strategic partnership. Before that, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee visited Abuja for the…
President Bola Tinubu departed Abuja for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Sunday to attend the 19th meeting of the G20 Leaders’ Summit taking place in the South American country. The Summit will be held from Monday, November 18 to Tuesday, November 19, 2024. “The Nigerian leader’s participation is at the instance of the Brazilian President…
As Ondo State prepares for its off-cycle governorship election, President Bola Tinubu urges all political stakeholders and the electorate to uphold peace and decorum and fulfil their civic responsibilities without fear before or after the elections. President Tinubu anticipates a democratic process in the state that will genuinely reflect the people’s will and power to…
Plateau State Governor, Barr. Caleb Manasseh Mutfwang, on Friday joined President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and other top government and military officials to bid farewell to the late Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Taoreed A. Lagbaja, who passed away on November 5, 2024, after a brief illness. President Tinubu, in his moving tribute, at the…
President, Ahmed Bola Tinubu has described Professor Chukwuma Soludo as a statesman, having provided groundbreaking projects that will catapult the state into a new realm of development. President Tinubu was speaking while declaring open the 2024 Anambra Investment Summit held at the International Convention Center, Awka. The President who was represented by the Permanent Secretary,…
