President Bola Tinubu has approved an increase in the retirement age for doctors and other healthcare workers from 60 to 65 years. National Publicity Secretary, Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Dr Mannir Bature, made the disclosure in a statement on Wednesday in Lagos. Bature said the Coordinating Minister of Health...
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By CHRISTIANA LOT, Jos – The Conference of Autochthonous Ethnic Communities Development Association (CONECDA) Youth Wing has commended President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for assenting to the North Central Development Commission (NCDC) Bill, describing it as a long-overdue step toward addressing the region’s developmental challenges. In a statement signed by...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Uwokwu Movement for Abba Moro (UMA) has congratulated the Senator representing Benue South Senatorial District, Distinguished Senator Abba Moro on signing into law on Tuesday by President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the Establishment of North Central Development Commission (NCDC) and Federal College...
Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Mohammed Idris, has said the reforms introduced by the President Bola Tinubu led administration are working and have started bearing fruits. The minister said this while briefing State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting on Tuesday. “The government of...
President Bola Tinubu has approved N80 billion for the reconstruction and expansion of the Alau Dam in Borno. The Minister of Water Resources, Prof. Joseph Utsev, confirmed this during a briefing with State House correspondents following the second FEC meeting of the year on Tuesday. Utsev, also the chairman...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja– The presidency has criticized former Kaduna State Governors, Nasiru El-Rufai and the former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi for heating up the polity while President Bola Tinubu was seeking solutions to Nigeria’s energy problems in Tanzania. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Public...
President Bola Tinubu on Monday presided over the swearing-in of newly appointed members of the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), the Federal Character Commission (FCC), and the National Population Commission (NPC). President Tinubu also swore in eight former directors in the Federal Civil Service as Permanent Secretaries...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed retired Maj.-Gen. Abdulmalik Jibrin as the new Secretary to the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire, and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB). The board’s spokesperson, Juliet Okeh, announced this in a statement issued on Monday in Abuja. Okeh noted that Jibrin succeeded Ahmed Ja’afaru, the former...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has congratulated Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, for winning the Best African Music Performance award at the 67th annual Grammy Awards held in Los Angeles on Sunday night. Tinubu in a statement by his media aide, Bayo Onanuga, commended the...
Almost mid way into the Tinubu presidency, the face of the 2027 opposition to his perpetuation is on display. An untidy opposition is nearly on full display but in a perpetual stampede. Key opposition figures are lashing out at surrogates of the ruling party from different angles in a...
By OLA MODUPE,Lagos – Dangote Petroleum Refinery has reduced the ex-depot (gantry) price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), commonly known as petrol, from N950 to N890, effective from Saturday, 1st February 2025. The Group Chief Branding and Communications Officer, Dangote Petroleum Refinery, Mr Anthony Chiejina, confirmed this development in...
The Federal Government has allocated N940.5 billion to the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) in the 2025 fiscal year, to enhance manpower and infrastructure development in the education sector. President Bola Tinubu stated this on Saturday at the 42nd Founders’ Day and 33rd Convocation of the Federal University of...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has appointed Abba Aliyu as the substantive Managing Director of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA). President Tinubu in a statement by his media aide, Bayo Onanuga, said the appointment, effective from Jan. 23, is for an initial term of four years....
By TYAV SAM TYAV, Makurdi – Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia has declared support for Tax Reform Bills transmitted to the National Assembly by President Bola Tinubu.. Governor Alia made this known on Wednesday while briefing newsmen in his office at the state secretariat in Makurdi, the state’s capital....
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has congratulated Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara on the occasion of his 50th birthday. President Tinubu in a statement by his Special Adviser on Information & Strategy, Mr Bayo Onanuga, lauded Fubara’s contributions to governance in Rivers and his efforts to...
President Bola Tinubu has concluded his visit to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where he joined other African leaders to participate in the Mission 300 Africa Energy Summit. The President, who arrived with his team arrived on Sunday, is now on his way back to Abuja. The two-day summit, hosted...
Vice-President Kashim Shettima, has said President Bola Tinubu is seriously worried by the frequencies of tanker explosion incidents on public roads and residential areas. Shettima stated this on Monday in his condolence message to the Enugu State Government and families of those who lost their lives in the recent...
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Abiola Oshodi, has described the appointments of Dr Umar Ganduje and Dr Mary Idele-Alile as rewards for loyalty and dedication to the country. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that President Bola Tinubu appointed Ganduje and Idele-Alile as Board...
President Bola Tinubu has arrived Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to attend the Mission 300 Africa Energy Summit, which starts on Jan. 27. The President, who arrived at 10.20 p.m. (8.20 p.m. Nigerian time), was received by the Foreign Minister of Tanzania, Amb. Mahmoud Thabit Kombo, and Chargé d’...
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun, Mr Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, has said President Bola Tinubu’s strategy against terrorist financiers in the country is yielding positive results. Oyintiloye, a former lawmaker, said that Tinubu’s recent remarks that his administration had been targeting the financial backbone of terrorist...