By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – Former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Adebisi Akande, has showered encomiums on Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, describing him as one of the ‘brightest boys’ in Yorubaland. Akande described Osinbajo as modest, cerebral, perspicacious, courageous and decent in every...
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**Asiwaju given conditions to come to Kebbi Govt’s Lodge to pitch as Govs refused to go to his Asokoro residence* In a significant move, All Progressives Congress (APC) Governors under the banner of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) rejected the former Lagos Governor Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s preference to...
Says Borno to get 30 megawatts solar power supply By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has arrived Maiduguri , the Borno State capital on Thursday on a day state working visit . Osinbajo, who landed at Maiduguri Air Force base airspace at 11.20 am was...
**Says it’s all a bunch of rehashed allegations already debunked* **Some media outlets already deleting group’s news links* The Northern wing of the Osinbajo Support Movement (OSM), has blasted an unknown group called the Arewa Civil Society Group’s statement regarding the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, for baselessly claiming that...
The Progressive Project (TPP), a non- governmental organisation has said that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is the best candidate of the All Progressives Congress(APC) to lead the party to victory in 2023. Chief Precious Elekima, the TPP Rivers Coordinator disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Vice president, Yemi Osinbajo, has said to ensure continuity of learning for all children, Nigeria must change and reimagine the education sector. Osinbajo stated this at the official launch of the Nigeria Learning Passport (NLP) in Abuja on Thursday, a programme supported by the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, on Tuesday in Abuja, chaired the inaugural meeting of a technical working group under the main Presidential Committee on Repatriation, Return and Resettlement of Displaced Persons in the North-East. The broader committee was constituted by President Muhammadu Buhari who...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – Beyond the spiritual upliftment of individuals and communities, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has urged religious leaders to use faith to promote peace, ensure prosperity for the people as well as development of society. Prof. Osinbajo stated this on Saturday evening when he received on...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who was born on March 8, 1957, has clocked 65 years. Osinbajo survived a helicopter crash in Kogi on Feb. 2, 2019, and won re-election on Feb. 23, 2019, for another four-year term with President Muhammadu Buhari. Osinbajo, Nigeria’s 5th vice president, is the Chairman...
President Muhammadu Buhari says Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo is now in charge of the country. The president said this shortly before he departed Abuja for a routine medical check-up in London, the United Kingdom. The president had initially planned to embark on the trip from Nairobi, Kenya after attending the...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday said for Africa to achieve the desired level of attainment, issues such as poverty, socio-economic rights, environmental and sustainable development alongside concerns about democracy and unconstitutional changes of governments, have to be dealt with. Prof. Osinbajo gave the...
By SAM ADZEGEH –Two major developments have, in the past five weeks or so, elicited much excitement in Agber, a settlement eastward on the outskirts of Makurdi, the Benue State capital. The resumption of construction work on a drainage canal, a federal government project being executed by the Federal...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum has commended Vice President Yemi Osinbajo for his one day state working visit to Borno and efforts in repatriating and resettling Nigerian refugees abroad as Chairman Federal Government Resettlement Committee (FGRC). He also appreciated the VP for announcing a...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo was in Maiduguri on Thursday, to launch the 30th edition of the Federal Government’s Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Clinic during which he commissioned four out of over 500 projects executed by Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana...
The tricycle owners Association of Nigeria (TOAN), on Tuesday in Abuja endorsed Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to contest the 2023 Presidential election. The endorsement was made known when the leadership of the Osinbajo Support Movement (OSM) paid a courtesy visit to the association’s office in Gwarinpa, Abuja. The OSM...
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state was Saturday morning barred by security personnel from entering the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, Base Makurdi to receive the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo who was transiting through the NAF Airport to Wukari in Taraba state by helicopter. The Governor who had earlier...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Senate President Ahmad Lawan are expected to grace the 2022 Justice Sector Summit. The Chairman, NBA Judiciary Committee, Dr Babatunde Ajibade, who disclosed on Friday in Abuja, said the summit will be held at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja on Jan. 25. Ajibade...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has inaugurated the Nigeria COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus (NG-Cares), which will be implemented with a 750-million-dollar World Bank facility. The vice president performed the inauguration on Thursday as prelude to National Economic Council (NEC) meeting which he chaired at the State House Banquet...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja- Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, SAN has assured young Nigerians that the Federal Government would continue to support them in making their marks in different fields like technology, environmental sanitation, agriculture, public health, and education, among others, Prof. Osinbajo stated this in Abuja on Thursday at...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, is expected to attend the 8th Sir Ahmadu Bello lecture in Kano on Jan. 28, as a Special Guest of Honour, an official has said. Malam Abubakar Gambo, the Managing Director of the Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation, said this in a statement in Kaduna on...