The Supreme Court, on Monday, awarded a N5 million fine against Mr Ambrose Owuru, a former presidential candidate in the 2019 general elections, for filing a suit described as “frivolous and vexatious” against President Bola Tinubu. The five-member panel of justices, in a judgment read by Justice Uwani Aba-Aji,...
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Former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has threatened to sue persons behind an online media, Daily Excessive, over alleged fake report targeted at causing a strained relationship between him and President Bola Tinubu. The decision to sue the purveyors of the news was made known in a statement signed...
President Bola Tinubu has urged West African leaders to draw inspiration from Ghana’s recent peaceful elections as a model of democratic maturity and commitment to national unity. The President said this during the opening of the 66th Ordinary Session of ECOWAS on Sunday in Abuja. He lauded President Nana...
The Federal Government has paid its ECOWAS community levy of N85 billion and 54 million dollars representing 2023 and up to July 2024. President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr Omar Touray, said this on Sunday, during the opening of the 66th Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of...
President Bola Tinubu on Saturday congratulated Prof. Iya Abubakar on his 90th birthday. The educationist and one-time vice chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria was Minister of Defence in the Second Republic. Abubakar, a renowned professor of Mathematics, also served as Senator representing Adamawa North between 1999 and...
President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Sylvester Nwakuche as the Acting Controller General, Nigerian Correctional Service(NCoS). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that this followed the expiration of the tenure of the outgoing Controller-General, Haliru Nababa. The appointment is contained in a statement by Ja’afaru Ahmed,...
President Bola Tinubu will on Tuesday, present the 2025 Appropriation Bill to the joint session of the National Assembly. This was disclosed by President of Senate, Godswill Akpabio, during the plenary on Thursday. Akpabio said the budget presentation would take place at the chamber of House of Representatives. NAN...
A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Bode George, has urged President Bola Tinubu to reduce the price of petrol to N300 per litre to make things easy for Nigerians during the festive season. George, the Atona Oodua of Yorubaland, made this plea at...
Mr Daniel Bwala, Special Adviser on Public Communications and Media to President Bola Tinubu has said that the president can’t be distracted about talks on the 2027 presidential election. He said this on Wednesday in Abuja while speaking with newsmen at the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Secretariat. He...
President Bola Tinubu has said the interest and welfare of the citizens of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger remained priority for leaders of ECOWAS. The President said this on Wednesday while receiving Mr Frank–Walter Steinmeier, the President of Germany, in a State Visit on Wednesday at the Presidential Villa,...
President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, assured the German government and businessmen of Nigeria’s preparedness to expand frontiers for investors by removing administrative bottlenecks in the energy and solid minerals sectors. Tinubu said this at a business session during the State Visit of Mr Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the German President, at...
President Bola Tinubu, is set to perform the groundbreaking of 2,000 housing units of the Renewed Hope City in Ibeju Lekki, Lagos, in the next few weeks. Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Mr Ahmed Dangiwa, announced this during an official assessment visit, on Wednesday in Lagos State. Dangiwa...
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has arrived in Nigeria. He arrived in the country on Tuesday night. He was received at the presidential wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike Steinmeier, whose visit to Nigeria is scheduled to span...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has appointed Mr Shamseldeen Ogunjimi as the Acting Accountant General of the Federation (AGF). His appointment is with effect following the pre-retirement leave of the incumbent AGF, Dr (Mrs) Oluwatoyin Madein. The President’s Special Adviser, Information and Strategy, Mr Bayo Onanuga,...
President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday said the country must embrace technology, innovation, and knowledge-based opportunities to drive growth. The President said this while inaugurating the new Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) technology complex in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the NIS complex comprises seven key components,...
The Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) has strongly opposed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s contentious tax reform bill, which the National Assembly is currently considering. In a comprehensive nine-page memorandum obtained by Economic Confidential, RMAFC outlined a range of legal, constitutional, and technical objections to the proposed legislation....
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has congratulated President-elect John Dramani Mahama on his victory in the Saturday general election in Ghana, following his opponent’s concession speech. In a telephone call to Mahama, Tinubu hoped that his ascension to power for the second time would further bring...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Nzuko Alaigbo Socio-Cultural Progressives has expressed gratitude to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for his reconstitution of the board of the South East Development Commission (SEDC). In a press statement issued in Abuja on Sunday, the organization also commended the Deputy Speaker of the...
President Bola Tinubu on Saturday in Owerri emphasised the need for quality education to speed up Nigeria’s economic development. Tinubu, in a goodwill message to the 36th Convocation of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, said that his administration places much premium on educational growth. His message was read...
Amidst the uproar and controversy surrounding the tax reform bills the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, said that President Bola Tinubu’s decision was not to undermine democracy. Idris said this while giving an address at the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) 2024 Annual Public Lecture/AGM...