Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday held an emergency meeting with service chiefs, after which he ordered Tukur Buratai, chief of army staff and Sadique Abubakar, chief of air staff, to relocate to Maiduguri, with immediate effect. The acting president said there was a need for them to be at the military command control centre in […]
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The Acting President of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo, on Wednesday morning swore two new ministers into the Federal Executive Council. Stephen Ocheni from Kogi State and Suleiman Hassan from Gombe State were screened and confirmed by the Senate in May and have been waiting to be brought into the federal cabinet. Acting President Yemi Osinbajo administered […]
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NIGERIA – Acting President Yemi Osinbajo will on Wednesday swear in the two ministers-designate who were screened and confirmed by the senate in April. Spokesman of the acting president, Laolu Akande, made this known in a tweet on Tuesday evening. AgP Osinbajo would be swearing in the two new ministers already confirmed by the Senate […]
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Speaking at the conference of speakers and presiding officers of the Commonwealth in Abuja on Tuesday, Acting President Yemi Osinbajo says is conflict between the executive and the legislature that make headlines in Nigeria. Reacting to a newspaper reports of threat to Dogara and Saraki, Osinbajo jocularly said it will be suicidal to threaten Senate […]
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The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, has written to the House of Representatives requesting approval for “virement’’ of N135.6 billion to fund some critical projects in the 2017 budget. The request was made in a letter dated July 18, 2017, which was read to members of the House by its Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, at plenary on […]
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Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has ordered fresh security reinforcements in Kaduna State following the reported communal clashes that resulted in the loss of lives in Kajuru Local Government Area of the state. Mr Laolu Akande, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity (Office of the Vice-President), said in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday, […]
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Ms Amina Mohammed, the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, and three other UN envoys, would visit Acting President Yemi Osinbajo as part of their current trips to Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Mohammed would be joined by the Executive Director of UN Women, Dr Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka; the UN Special Representative on Sexual […]
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Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti state, has said that the visit of acting president Yemi Osinbajo’s visit to President Muhammadu Buhari is aimed at deceiving Nigerians and that only a video or some pictures would quell doubts over his health status. Osinbajo left the country on Tuesday night to meet with the president. Upon return, he said Buhari […]
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Yemi Osinbaj, Acting President of Nigeria, has assured Nigerians that President Muhammadu Buhari will be back in the country very shortly. Speaking with state house correspondents on Wednesday, he said of the President, “he is in very high spirit, he is recuperating very well and we had very long conversation, we spoke for well over an […]
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Acting President Yemi Osinbajo spent one hour with President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in London and then swiftly left to begin the journey home. According to Reuters, Osinbajo arrived in the night at the Abuja House, where Buhari has been living since he arrived 8 May, from Nigeria for medical vacation. Osinbajo spent one hour […]
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