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Ministry of Labour has said President Bola Tinubu will not announce new wages for workers during his October 1 Independence Day speech. Freelanews reports that the Director of Press and Public Relations in the Ministry, Olajide Oshundun in a statement he issued on Wednesday in Abuja said the report was …

Allied Peoples Movement (APM) has filed a 10 grounds of Appeal before the Supreme Court challenging the decision of the Presidential Election Petition Court, asking that the victory of President Bola Tinubu, be nullified. Freelaews reports that the APM, in its notice of appeal filed by its new counsel Chukwuma …

Olajide Adeniji has testified at a United States district court that he was a classmate of Bola Tinubu at Chicago State University (CSU). Adeniji swore to an oath that he also contested against Tinubu as President of Accounting Society Club at the Department of Business Admin/Accounting in CSU. In the …

Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Duro Meseko, has appealed to Nigerians to be patient and trust the ruling party and President Bola Tinubu to turn around the social and economic fortunes of the country, despite the failure of the past administration. The appeal was coming …

Two new ministers have been nominated to lead the Ministry of Youth by President Bola Tinubu. They are Ayodele Olawande, Minister of State for Youth, and Dr. Jamila Bio Ibrahim, Minister of Youth. Chief Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President on Media & Publicity, revealed this in a statement. …

President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Hon. Zacch Adedeji as the new Acting Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). This follows the President’s directive for the erstwhile FIRS Chairman, Mr. Muhammad Nami, to proceed on three- month pre-retirement leave, as provisioned by Public Service Rule …

Often, the gap of understanding between governments and the citizens is very wide. This is as a result of the inability of sensitive government organs to effectively communicate policies and programmes to the understanding of citizens. Serially, Nigeria has been caught in this web of citizens and their governments not …

President Ahmed Tinubu has said he cannot give order to state governors on how to distribute the palliatives the Federal Government is giving to states to cushion the effects of removal of fuel subsidy. The President said this while responding to the request of some Islamic scholars that the Federal …

President Bola Tinubu has appointed Engr Bisoye Coker-Odusote as the Acting Director-General (DG) of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC). Gatekeepers News reports that this was disclosed in a statement by Presidential spokesman Ajuri Ngelale. Ngelale said Coker-Odusote’s initial appointment will be for 90 days, effective from August 24, 2023. …

Renowned author and activist, Reno Omokri, has highlighted the paradoxical nature of the country’s security situation despite having former military Generals at the helm of affairs. He was reacting to a comment by a former senator, Shehu Sani, who had earlier attacked the Nigerian president, Bola Tinubu, over his choice …

Former Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, says President Bola Tinubu won’t regret nominating him to serve as a minister in his cabinet. Wike stated this when he appeared before the red chamber for screening on Monday afternoon. Wike took a bow after the Senate cleared him for ministerial role …

President Bola Tinubu will create and support a National Commodity Board that will review and continuously assess food prices as well as maintain a strategic food reserve that will be used as a price stabilisation mechanism for critical grains and other food items. Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Special Duties, Communications …

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed as his personal physician, US-trained General Surgeon, Hon. Most Senior Evangelist (Dr.) Sikiru Adekunle Tinubu; member, Pastor in Council and medical advisor to the pastor and Spiritual Head, CCC Worldwide, Rev. Emmanuel Mobiyina Friday Oshoffa. HMSE (Dr.) Ade Tinubu was named among 20 other …

President Bola Tinubu has declared a state of emergency on food security. Dele Alake, special adviser to the president on special duties, communications and strategy, made the disclosure to state house correspondents on Thursday after a meeting Tinubu had with stakeholders on agriculture and food production value-chain. Recommended articles Court …

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said 12m families will get N8, 000 over a period of six months to ameliorate the hardships faced by Nigerians as a result of subsidy removal. In a letter to the House of Representatives read by Speaker Tajudeen Abbas during plenary on Tuesday, Tinubu said …

The Senator representing Ogun East senatorial district, Otunba Gbenga Daniel has congratulated President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on his emergence as the new chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) at the 63rd Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government on Sunday in Bissau, …

The former Labour Minister of State, Festus Keyamo, has taken the sail off the excitement that greeted the admittance of the European Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) report on the last presidential and states elections in Nigeria. Recall that in its final submission, the EU report claimed that the last …

The former governorship candidate of Labour Party in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has kicked against the planned VAT Direct Initiative, a scheme that would enable FG to collect Value Added Taxes from the informal sector and reduce multiple taxations in the informal economy. Recall that the federal overnment through the …

President Bola Tinubu has said that he was forced to invoke the spirit of freedom in the South West state following the hardship that accompanied the Central Bank of Nigeria cash swap policy during the electioneering period. Tinubu, who was in Ogun State on Thursday, to meet with traditional rulers …

Equity trading on the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) closed trading on Tuesday, June 27th, 2023, in the green territory as the NGX All-Share Index appreciated by 1.3% to cross 60,000 index points.   This is the highest point the ASI has reached in over 15 years.  Investors sentiment has remained positive …