Vice-President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has said he has no plan of running for presidency in 2019. According to Reuters, Osinbajo was asked at the Financial Times Africa Summit in London if he had considered running, he said he had not thought about it, adding: “None of that is on the cards”. There have […]
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Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, has revealed the secret of his business success: self-sufficiency and backward integration, a manufacturing strategy that extracts value from entire processes. “We are not going to import anything any longer,” Dangote said, in the presence of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, Congolese presidential hopeful Moise Katumbi, and about 300 business leaders. He […]
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Speaking while inaugurating an Electric Metering Factory in Onna local government area of Akwa Ibom, on Saturday, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said that the problem of irregular power supply in Nigeria is caused by inaccurate billing system resulting from insufficient metering machines. The vice president said that Nigeria’s economic development hinged on effective power supply, […]
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Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Saturday in Yola, while speaking at the reception in Yola in honour of the new President of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), Musa Filibus, said the federal government is determined to keep one, indivisible Nigeria. The vice-president, urged Nigerians to sustain the unity which he said was the dream of the […]
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The Vice President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo on Saturday disowned a group that created a website for the purpose of supporting him as a candidate for the presidency in the 2019 general election. In a short statement issued through Adeolu Akande, his spokesperson on Saturday, the Vice President urged Nigerians to disregard the activities […]
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The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has assigned Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo to henceforth chair the concluding part of the ongoing negotiation between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). ASUU, an umbrella association of lecturers in the nation’s universities, is demanding the full implementation of the 2009 agreements reached with the federal […]
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The Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday in Auchi, Edo State inaugurated the Edo Fertilizer Plant and Chemical Company Limited. The plant, said to have the capacity to produce about 60,000 metric tonnes of fertilizer in a year, was revived through a public, private venture about 14 years after it was abandoned. According to a statement […]
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The inspector-general of police, Ibrahim Idris, has vowed to arrest and prosecute perpetrators of hate speech under the Terrorism Prevention Act. According to Moshood Jimoh, police spokesman, the IGP directed assistant inspectors general of police and commissioners to ensure that anybody found guilty of hate speech is “promptly arrested and prosecuted”. Jimoh told The Nation […]
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The committee that investigated the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Babachir Lawal and the Director General of the NIA, Mr Ayo Oke, has submitted its reports. The Vice President Yemi Osinbajo-led committee submitted two reports to President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday. Osinbajo told State House correspondents that the president would study and […]
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The National Economic Council rose from its day-long retreat on National Security, with a consensus on commencement of community policing and other issues aimed at tackling many of the security challenges in the country. The retreat featured presentations on the National Security Situation; Terrorism in the North East; Herders/Farmers Clashes; Ethno-Religious Crises; Regional Agitations for […]
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