About four days to the expiration of the 60-day provision for the President to submit names of ministerial nominees to the Senate for screening and confirmation, President Bola Tinubu has yet to fulfil this constitutional provision. He took the oath of office on May 29, when former President Muhammadu Buhari handed over the mantle of […]
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Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), George Akume has released 20 nuggets on how President Bola Tinubu intends to transform Nigeria. He said Tinubu came prepared and with a plan, saying that he knew what to do and he is doing it. Nugget 1: As a Government, we have heard your cries about […]
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Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu Lagos State Government has debunked a report going viral of its purported plan to give casualties of the 2020 #EndSARS killings at Lekki Toll Gate a mass burial. It urged the public to disregard the report which it described as the handiwork of mischief makers. The government reacted through a […]
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By Banji Ayoola Disturbed by the fiery flood that wreaked havoc on Ikire in the western axis of Osun state, Governor Ademola Adeleke has directed the state’s commissioner for Environment to accelerate action on the ongoing state flood prevention plans. While expressing his deeply-felt sympathy with the victims of the flood, he also assured them […]
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By Banji Ayoola Arrangements have been finalised by Accord Party’s governorship candidate in last year’s July 16, governorship election, Dr. Akin Ogunbiyi to join the All Progressives Congress (APC). It was gathered that plans are already in top gear to welcome the insurance magnate into the APC, which is the immediate former party in power, […]
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By Banji Ayoola Contrary to the claim by the opposition, Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke did not at any time promise to pay up all the half-month salary arrears owed workers by the immediate past All Progressives Congress administration within his six months of assuming office, the government has said. While debunking the claim through […]
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Your views not representative of leadership’s stance, says spokesman NWC ‘timid onlooker, distant observer’, Lukman insists ALL Progressives Congress (APC) has said a statement credited to the party’s national vice chairman (North West), Dr. Salihu Lukman, as regards the chairmanship position, was his personal view and did not represent the stance of the APC. The […]
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Concerned parents of Unity College students in the country have called on the Federal Government to revisit the sudden increase in fees for their children, in a bid to make education accessible to all. The parents made the call in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Lagos. The Federal […]
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Says it’s ridiculous, embarrassing The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has condemned the planned increment of school fees by tertiary institutions in the country, and demanded the suspension of the increase in fees. In a statement signed by the National Public Relations Officer, Giwa Temitope and released yesterday, NANS declared that the government’s action […]
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The Federal Government’s afterthought on giving palliatives to douse the biting inflation and other realities of the fuel subsidy removal is getting even more controversial than the era of prodigal spending on petrol, Kehinde Olatunji reports: President Bola Tinubu’s U-turn on the proposed N8,000 monthly palliative for 12 million vulnerable households didn’t come as a […]
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