Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar says the Peoples Democratic Party will bounce back to give Nigerians a responsive government. Abubakar said this in a statement by his Media Office in Abuja on Friday. “The PDP is the progenitor of our contemporary democracy and shall ensure that democracy did not only survive in Nigeria but also […]
President Bola Tinubu has terminated the appointment of Bashir Gwandu as the vice-chairman and chief executive officer of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI). The president appointed 32-year-old Khalil Suleiman Halilu(pictured) as his replacement. Ajuri Ngelale, special adviser to the president on media and publicity, announced the development in a statement […]
The African Union’s Peace and Security Council on Friday said it has suspended Gabon from all AU activities following the recent coup. In its communique seen by PREMIUM TIMES, the AU said it decided to “immediately suspend the participation of the Republic of Gabon in all activities of the AU, its Organs and institutions […]
The Department of State Services (DSS) has grilled suspended Chairman of Ijebu East Local Government Area, Wale Adedayo, who accused Governor Dapo Abiodun of diverting statutory Federal Allocation due to the state’s Local Governments in the last two years. Adedayo had raised the alarm in a letter to elder statesman, Chief Olusegun Osoba, and […]
Abia State Government has disengaged all public servants recruited towards the end of the tenure of the immediate-past Governor Okezie Ikpeazu. A circular dated August 31, 2022, and signed by the Head of Service, Lady Joy Maduka, gave the affected public servants as all those recruited from December 2022 till date. It read: […]
Chukwuma Soludo, governor of Anambra, has likened the economy inherited by President Bola Tinubu to a “dead horse standing”. Speaking on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme, on Friday, Soludo said from a macroeconomic perspective, the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari bequeathed a rocky economy to the new one. He said Tinubu’s economic […]
President Bola Tinubu, on Friday, declared his unwavering support for a partnership between the Federal Ministry of Health’s National Eye Health Programme and the Peek Vision Foundation to provide more than five million pairs of eyeglasses to Nigerians with sight impairments. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, in […]
The Governor of Enugu State, Peter Mbah has said that programmes and policies of his administration are geared towards providing opportunities for young people in the state and ending the japa syndrome. Japa is a Yoruba word used to describe the recent wave of migration by Nigerians, especially young people to other countries for […]
Gabon’s main opposition group, Alternance 2023, on Friday, urged the international community to encourage the junta that overthrew President Ali Bongo to hand power back to civilians Military officers seized power in a coup on Wednesday minutes after an announcement that Bongo had secured a third term in an election, ending his family’s nearly […]
The federal government has only released N2 billion from the N5 billion it offered to each states as palliative to cushion the impact of subsidy removal. The reason for releasing N2 billion is to mitigate the obvious spike in inflation if N5 billion had been released. Addressing journalists at his maiden press briefing in […]
