The minister said this while speaking with correspondents at the presidential villa in Abuja on Tuesday after meeting with President Bola Tinubu. This is as he also confirmed that President Bola Tinubu has given his approval for the construction of 18,897 kilometres of road totalling N14 trillion inherited from previous administrations. The minister also said he has the backing of the President to forge ahead with his plan to adopt concrete technology in the construction of roads across the country. “We are saying people should not construct roads on asphalt but if Nigerians are saying they should not have…
Author: Wale Adedayo
The screening of President Bola Tinubu’s ministerial nominees came to a conclusion last Wednesday amid high drama when one of the last three nominees collapsed during his screening before the Committee of the Whole of the Senate. The three nominees screened on that day were Dr Jamila Bio Ibrahim (Kwara) Balarabe Lawal (Kaduna) and Ayodele Olawande (Ondo). Incidentally, expectations on that day were fixed on the two youthful nominees earmarked to handle the Youth ministry. Miss Bio Ibrahim, 37 and Olawande, 34 are about the youngest to have been nominated as ministers and join the league of the minister…
By Michael Chibuzo In the light of the frenzy distortions of the contents of the 219-page depositions by the CSU Registrar on Tuesday by the Ellu P 75 and PDP coalition, I want to simply summarise the undiluted facts contained in the transcript in the most basic English possible considering the fact that English comprehension is now rocket science in Nigeria. Caleb Westberg affirmed (i.e, stated) the following: 1. Bola Tinubu was admitted into CSU in 1976 from the South West College in Chicago, which is a feeder school for CSU. Bola Tinubu got GPA distinction in Accounting. He was…
Nigerians never cease to amaze me. How can certain groups of people, tied to a particular region and political party, claim that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is not a Yoruba man and not a Nigerian? This is a man who once served as a senator, governed for eight years, and worked in both the private and public sectors in Nigeria. It appears to be driven by hate, bigotry, and frustration due to their preferred candidate’s loss in the election. They have also suffered defeats in Nigerian courts and are on the brink of losing in US courts. In a certain…
Special Adviser on media to the Senate President, Rt Hon Eseme Eyiboh has described the rumored impeachment move against the Senate president as phantom as best. He made this disclosure while speaking on a live program on television. RT Hon Eseme urged well meaning Nigerians to ignore such distractions and follow the 10th Senate as it works to deliver on its mandate of exemplary lawmaking and legislation for the country. Speaking further, Eseme said while the rumour mills continue to spin, he was confident that the 10th senate is largely harmonious and nothing has the potential to threaten that harmony.…
Fresh details on the agitation against President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio emerged over the weekend with the revelation that the disaffection on committee appointments was only diversionary. The real angst of the group of senators, it was reliably gathered, is the suspicion of the incapacity of the Senate President to checkmate what some northern senators are calling the Yorubanisation of the country’s financial system and economy. Besides the alleged perception of Akpabio’s lack of capacity to checkmate the purported domination of the Yoruba ethnic nationalities in the financial ecosystem, is also his alleged refusal to deal with some powerful…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and President of the United Arab Emirates, Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, on Monday in Abu Dhabi, have finalized a historic agreement, which has resulted in the immediate cessation of the visa ban placed on Nigerian travelers. Furthermore, by this historic agreement, both Etihad Airlines and Emirates Airlines are to immediately resume flight schedules into and out of Nigeria, without any further delay. As negotiated between the two Heads of State, this immediate restoration of flight activity, through these two airlines and between the two countries, does not involve any immediate payment by the Nigerian government.…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on the sideline of the G-20 summit in India, met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to boost Nigeria’s car manufacturing sector. This wad disclosed by Chief Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, statement on Sunday. President Tinubu noted that expanding Nigeria’s economic partnership is vital to his administration. He called on the German government to explore new incentives for foreign investments in Nigeria. “It is not, for us, only a matter of designing the financial architecture for an expanded economic partnership. It is also about the practicality of aligning the perspectives…
President Bola Tinubu,on Saturday in New Delhi, India, expressed Nigeria’s commitment to play a major role within the G-20 and contribute to shaping a more equitable world. This is contained in a press release made by the spokesperson to the President, Chief Ajuri Ngelale, on Abuja. Addressing world leaders at the 18th G-20 Leaders’ Summit, the Nigerian leader called for global unity and cooperation in tackling pressing challenges, fostering inclusiveness, and establishing a fairer world order. While acknowledging the vital role of the G-20 in shaping a rules-based world order that promotes shared prosperity and security, President Tinubu emphasized that…
The North South Progressives Alliance (NOSPA) has congratulated the President and Commander in Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Vice President Kashim Shettima and the All Progressives Congress (APC), on the resounding victory at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal. The group in a statement released in Abuja by the coordinator, Alwan Hassan described the victory at the tribunal as an affirmation of the popular mandate the Nigerian people gave to the All Progressives Congress and its presidential candidate at the polls in February. Hassan noted that the Tribunal painstakingly and meticulously evaluated the petitions brought before…