Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday harped on the need to strengthen democracy in Africa. The duo made the call in Abeokuta during the opening session of a two-day democracy conference held at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library. The conference, organised by the Coalition...
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will depart Lagos on Friday for Accra, Ghana, to represent Nigeria at an Extraordinary Summit of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement in Abuja, said the summit would focus on the political situation in Mali...
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Borno State, Hon Dr. Al-Bashir Ibrahim has said the former Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima is the most suitable candidate for the position of the Vice President and running mate to whoever may emerge as the APC Presidential flag bearer...
White Witches Association of Nigeria (WWAN), has come out with a damning prediction on the political future of Vice President Yemi Osibanjo to the effect that he would not win the forthcoming presidential election no matter how hard he tries. The Association said that God brought Osibanjo for a...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – Due to their centrality, especially in the age of technology, Nigerian scientists should get adequate support in the drive towards national development. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, stated this on Monday when he received, on a courtesy call at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, a...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has finally informed President Muhammadu Buhari of his ambition to contest for the 2023 presidential election. Various sources, according to Daily Trust report, said the VP told the president of his desire to take over from him at the expiration of his tenure in 2023...
The Federal Government says it is still waiting for the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to upgrade and return to it the Universities Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS), which was said to have failed integrity test. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that ASUU has embarked on one...
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...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo on Monday, chaired the inaugural meeting of a Presidential Committee on the Repatriation, Returns and Resettlement of Displaced Persons in the North-East, which was recently constituted by President Muhammadu Buhari to facilitate safe return of displaced Nigerians mostly from...
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says with the evolvement of technology, there is the need to equip Nigerians with the requisite knowledge and skills to drive innovations to solve challenges. Osinbajo made this known in Abuja on Saturday, at the 2021/2022 First Lego League (FLL) Championship in Robotics with the theme:...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will depart Abuja on Sunday for Arusha, Tanzania, to attend the formal opening of the 2022 Judicial Year of the African Court for Human and Peoples’ Rights. Osinbajo’s Spokesman Laolu Akande, in a statement, said the vice president had been designated as the guest speaker...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has reassured the government and people of Borno State of President Muhammadu Buhari led administration’s continuous support in the development and security of the state. VP Osinbajo stated this Thursday while speaking at the Shehu of Borno palace when...
A group of northern youths from the 19 states in the region, under the aegis of “North-4-Osinbajo”, has thrown its weight behind the presidential ambition of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. Coordinator of the group, Sani Mohammed, said this at the maiden rally it organised on Saturday in Jos. Mohammed,...
The National Economic Council (NEC) has resolved to encourage the growth of the automotive industry in Nigeria by improving patronage of locally manufactured vehicles, just as the Council got assurances that the current fuel situation in parts of the country would be resolved by next week. Both of these...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says Nigeria’s creative sector is one of the most vibrant in the world. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Thursday in Abuja, said the vice president received on a courtesy call at the Presidential Villa, a Kannywood delegation. Kannywood is the Hausa-language film...
The European Union (EU) has signed a development cooperation agreement of 55 million euros with Nigeria, out of which 44million euros is earmarked for the Nigeria Jubilee Fellows Programme (NJFP). This is contained in a statement jointly signed by Arukaino Umukoro, Special Assistant to the President, Office of the...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has expressed Federal Government’s readiness and commitment to the effective actualisation of the Strategic Roadmap (2021 to 2025) of the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development. Osinbajo made the commitment at the official inauguration of the Strategic Roadmap in Abuja. According to...
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo departs Abuja on Monday for Monrovia, to represent President Muhammadu Buhari at the inauguration of the year-long commemoration of the Liberia’s bicentennial anniversary. Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice-President, made the declaration in a statement in...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – A group, Progressive Consolidation Group, PCG, in support of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo ahead of the 2023 Presidential election, has paid a courtesy call to Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum. The group, led by its National Chairman, Dr. Aliyu Kurfi, was at the Government...
Gov. Babagana Zulum of Borno, says contending interests in the 2023 presidential primaries and other elections will not stop the All Progressives Congress (APC) from establishing a consensus. He explained that such a consensus would help consolidate its unity and national progress. According to a statement issued on Friday...