The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, stepped down from his role with immediate effect on Saturday. This was revealed in a statement issued by the Presidency on Saturday, wherein Ngelale said he had submitted a memo to the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, informing him […]
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Former Vice President of Nigeria and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has lambasted President Bola Tinubu’s administration for the rise in human rights abuses in the country. Atiku stated this in a release signed by his Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, lamenting that citizens were being arrested in […]
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The director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, says insecurity Nigeria is being weaponised for political reasons. Okonjo-Iweala spoke on Sunday at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in Lagos state. The WTO director-general said there would not be any development in the country […]
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NIGERIA – Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, has accused President Bola Tinubu, the National Assembly (NASS), and state governor of indulging in the worst display of fiscal rascality. Ezekwesili’s remark is coming after presidency procured a presidential jet worth N150million for Tinubu’s usage. She accused Tinubu, NASS, and state governors of spending scarce public […]
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A human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, has described President Bola Tinubu’s Sunday broadcast to Nigerians as “a pack of empty words and a time-wasting load of irrelevancies.” Effiong said the president’s speech is a confirmation of his long held view that Nigerians are dealing with “a fatalistic political class that is intentionally deaf and willfully […]
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President Bola Tinubu on Sunday morning addressed Nigerians on the #EndBadGovernance protest in a televised speech. Tinubu called for a suspension of the demonstrations, asking protesters to give room for dialogue. The president spoke at length about his achievements in office, defended his policies and reiterated that the decisions he took were necessary for the […]
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The vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris, has aid that she is looking forward to formally accepting Democratic Party nomination after she raised more than $81 million, a day after President Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race. The amount is believed to be the largest 24-hour fundraising in the history of the US […]
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The Labour Party (LP) has said it is puerile for the Federal Government (FG) to link its supporters to a planned nationwide protest against hunger. Recall that Saturday, Bayo Onanuga, special adviser on information and strategy to President Bola Tinubu, had alleged that supporters of LP and Peter Obi, its candidate in the 2023 presidential election, are […]
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Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers state has said a judicial panel of inquiry will be set up to investigate the management of the state’s resources and affairs under past administrations. The governor made the proclamation on Monday while swearing in Dagogo Iboroma, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), as the Rivers’ attorney-general and commissioner for […]
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Pat Utomi, a professor of political economy, says he has held talks with Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso over the possibility of forming a new political party that would give the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) a run for its money. Utomi spoke on Wednesday on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme. Abubakar, Obi […]
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