**President Muhammadu Buhari, has said that he has given the Independent National Electoral Commission the required resources for the smooth conduct of the 2023 elections. The President, therefore, said he would not entertain any excuse from INEC on the basis of shortage of funds. “I made sure they were given all the resources they asked …
**The ministry of interior announced the festive season holidays in a statement signed by Belgore Shuaib, the permanent secretary, on Friday. The public holidays are to mark Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day celebrations respectively. Rauf Aregbesola, the minister of interior, asked Christians to emulate the doctrines of Jesus, noting that “we must imbibe …
**The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, says Nigeria needs help from the private sector to meet its public investment needs. Ms Ahmed said this at the presentation of the latest World Bank Nigeria Development Update (Nigeria’s Choice and Country Economic Memorandum: Charting a New Course) in Abuja on Thursday. “I wish …
**Amid the attacks on the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, a coalition of civil society groups, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to sack all the Service Chiefs and the National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno. This was as the coalition under the aegis of Civil Society for Security Reform and Governance, urged Buhari …
**President Muhammadu Buhari’s seeming I-don’t-care attitude towards the 2023 presidential election is causing anxiety in the ruling All Progressives Congress, especially among the supporters of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the party’s presidential candidate. With just few weeks to the election, scheduled to take place on February 25, 2023, some of Tinubu’s loyalists believe the presidency is …
**Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2023 election, has aborted his planned trip to the United States (US) and returned to Nigeria. It was reported that the former Lagos State governor landed in Nigeria on Saturday morning. He was received by party supporters and associates at the …
**President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed shock over the reported kidnapping of five newborn babies in Anambra, directing that the rising crime rate in the areas be reduced without any delay. The reported kidnapping occurred at Stanley Hospital, Nkpologwu in the state. The kidnappers were said to have picked the babies and zoomed off. In a …
**The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has knocked the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, for questioning the credibility of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) and Results Viewing Portal. Recall that Tinubu, while speaking on Monday at the Chattam House, said INEC had yet to assure Nigerians of the …
**A spokesperson for Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party has said the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu performed so poorly at Chatham House in London on Monday that he could not answer easy questions. In a statement, Phrank Shaibu, the Special Assistant on Public Communicatioans to Atiku …
**The vice Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Datti Baba-Ahmed appeared in an interview on Channels television today where he said that APC’s Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s ambition to be the president of Nigeria in 2023 means nothing to the current president, Buhari. Baba-Ahmed said this on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics and according to him, once …
