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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Monday tasked security and intelligence agencies in the country on the importance of sharing information and intelligence among themselves, saying hoarding such resources could be counterproductive in the fight against terrorism.   The President spoke after undertaking a tour of the new Office of National Security Adviser and facilities at […]

The immediate past governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has said he would make consultations with his wife and friends to determine whether or not to take up any appointment offer from President Bola Tinubu.   Wike, in an interview with BBC Pidgin, insisted that his wife and friends are the set of people he […]

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to “set up a presidential panel of enquiry to promptly probe the grim allegations that US$2.1 billion and N3.1 trillion public funds of oil revenues and budgeted as fuel subsidy payments are missing and unaccounted for between 2016 and 2019, as documented by […]

The immediate past Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, unveiled an aircraft supposedly belonging to Nigeria Air amidst pomp last Friday, but a week after, the national carrier is yet to fly. Daily Trust on Sunday reports that tongues are wagging over what has become of the aircraft on display.   Where is Nigeria Air? […]

Ex-President Muhammadu Buhari’s assets did not increase through out the eight years he spent in office, Garba Shehu, his spokesman, has said.   Shehu said this could be seen in the assets declaration form he submitted to the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB).   According to Shehu, the completed declaration showed that Buhari’s movable assets […]

The Nigerian Union of Journalists has rejected the sudden removal of subsidy by the federal government and directed its members to commence industrial action from Wednesday 7th June, 2023 if the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNCPL) fails to reverse the newly increased pump price of petroleum.   In a release, which was signed by […]

The ninth session of the Lagos State House of Assembly officially ended on Friday with the returning lawmakers and lawmakers-elect all declaring support for Dr. Mudashiru Obasa as Speaker of the 10th Assembly.   The lawmakers-elect, who were physically present at the sitting, spoke with journalists immediately after the valedictory session of the House presided […]

The president also appointed Sen. Ibrahim Hassan Hadejia, a former Deputy Governor of Jigawa State, as Deputy Chief of Staff.   President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Friday in Abuja announced the appointment of Speaker of House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila as Chief of Staff. The president also appointed Sen. Ibrahim Hassan Hadejia, a […]

  The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) on Thursday in Ilorin grilled ex-Ekiti Governor Kayode Fayemi for alleged N4 billion fraud. Ilorin zonal office of the anti-graft agency was said to have in a letter dated May 12 invited the former Governor to its office on May 18 over allegations bordering on money laundering […]

President Bola Tinubu in his first meeting with the nation’s security chiefs, read a riot act, saying, a situation where security agencies work at cross purposes will no longer be condoned going forward.   He made it clear that he will not accept a situation in which the nation’s fortunes keep declining. According to him, […]

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has congratulated governors who recently emerged as leaders of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) and Progressive Governors Forum (PGF).   The President’s felicitation was contained in a statement from the State House on Thursday.   “I congratulate the Governor of Kwara State, His Excellency Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, on his emergence as the […]

The meeting between the Federal Government and the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) over fuel subsidy removal has ended without a consensus.   The meeting began around 4pm on Wednesday at the Presidential Villa. Representatives of the Federal Government, including Dele Alake, the spokesperson for President Bola Tinubu; and the Group CEO of the Nigerian National […]