President Bola Tinubu has extended his condolences to the Eze family over the passing of Sen. Ayogu Eze. Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, said this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. The late politician represented Enugu North Senatorial Zone in the Senate from 2007 to 2015. Ngelale said during…
The Nigerian Home Grown School Feeding Programme, on Thursday, got a boost with a partnership between the Federal Government and the Partnership for Child Development, Imperial College, London. President Bola Tinubu, on January 12, suspended all programmes of the National Social Investment Programme Agency for six weeks. The four programmes administered by NSIPA are N-…
By Yetunde Oke The Forum of State Chairmen, National Youth Council of Nigeria, NYCN has called for the urgent implementation of Expatriate Employment Levy, EEL. This was made known by the Forum of State Chairmen, NYCN under the leadership of Comrade Abdul-Salam Olusegun. Comrade Olusegun, urged President Bola Tinubu to continue with the introduction of…
By Babatunde Tiamiyu Nigerian Press Organisation (NPO), the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON) and Civil Society Partners, have referred the dispute between the General Editor of FirstNews newspapers, Mr. Segun Olatunji, and the Defence Intelligence Agency, DIA, to the Ombudsman for adjudication, following a meeting with DIA. This was made known in a joint statement…
President Bola Tinubu will today April 23rd leave Abuja for the Kingdom of the Netherlands on the invitation of the Prime Minister. The Netherlands Prime Minister, Mark Rutte and President Tinubu will engage in high-level discussions. A statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Ajuri Ngelale, says the President…
Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has disowned a flier purportedly from the Office of one of his wives, Mrs Ngozi Adeleke, welcoming Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu to the state Senator Adeleke who described the flier purportedly from Mrs Ngozi Adeleke as fake said there was no conflict over who among his two…
The Federal Government on Monday launched guidelines on safe motherhood, targeting at least seven million pregnant women, and at least six million newborn births annually. Speaking at the launch of the guidelines the Labour Care Guide, and the Guidelines for Community Use of Misoprostol, to commemorate the 2024 Safe Motherhood Day in Abuja, the Coordinating…
President Bola Tinubu has reiterated the call for the establishment of a regional standby force that will serve as a rapid deployment tool to combat both existing threats and the ones that could emerge. It will also serve as a strong deterrence to large-scale weapon smuggling. The President gave the call at the opening ceremony…
The Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, on Monday opposed the establishment of state police to tackle the lingering security crisis in the country. Newsmen recalls that President Bola Tinubu and the state governors had on February 16 agreed to establish state police in the country as part of measures to check the rising…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Resident Electoral Commissioner for Osun State, Dr Mutiu Agboke has said the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS is still part of the innovations bringing sanity into the electoral process in the country. Dr Agboke also maintained that BVAS is still the game changer when it comes to elections in…