President Bola Tinubu has appointed two new ministers in charge of the Ministry of Youth – Dr. Jamila Bio Ibrahim and Mr. Ayodele Olawande. While Ibrahim will serve as the Minister of Youth, Olawande will be the new Minister of State For Youth, a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and…
Last week, I witnessed a scene play out in one of the states where agents of the government were busy distributing palliatives to the “poorest of the poor” in line with the lingo that got popularised in recent years by the Muhammadu Buhari administration. An open-roof truck, call it a minivan was making its way…
The Director General of the National Council on Climate Change, Dr Salisu Dahiru has described the Osun State Climate Agenda as “an unprecedented model for subnational entities in Nigeria” Speaking while receiving a delegation of the Osun State Governor’s Climate Advisory Council in his Abuja office, Dr Dahiru expressed commendation for Governor Ademola Adeleke for…
The free medical and surgical outreach, provided by Senator Ademola Adeleke’s administration, is organized for the benefit of the people of Osun State, irrespective of their tribe or social status The Chief Medical Director, UNIOSUN Teaching Hospital, Professor Peter Olaitan, stated this while speaking on IMOLE AYO, a Yoruba sensitization programme, promoting the activities of…
Senate spokesman Adaramodu stressed that the National Assembly played a crucial role in addressing issues affecting the lives of Nigerians such as the removal of fuel subsidies. The Senate has appealed to Nigerians to save its members from “careless talk” as it denied claims by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) that senators received N100 million…
The United Kingdom government has announced over 600 per cent increment in student and visiting visas which will now cost £115 (about N111,878.28 ) as opposed to £15 (14,592.70) for visitors, and £127 (N123,537.58) to £490 (N476,677.59) for students, effective October 4. The Home Office’s announcement on the prices of the new visas had an…
*Protagonists to float hybrid party *Two ex-govs, three others meet in Saudi Arabia, Ilorin to perfect strategies Top politicians strongly opposed to the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, plan to oust him when the Senate resumes later this month. The forces are reported to be upset that the former Akwa Ibom State Governor is playing the…
The latest Consumer Price Index data released by the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics revealed that Kogi, Lagos, and Rivers are the most expensive states to live in, based on inflation rates for August 2023. On a year-on-year basis, Kogi led the way with the highest all-items inflation rate at 31.50 per cent, followed closely by…
The Nasarawa State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has cautioned Governor Abdullahi Sule against dragging President Bola Tinubu and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, into the politics of the state. In a statement made available to journalists in Lafia on Saturday, the state chairman of the PDP, Chief Francis Orogu,…
Two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut docked with the International Space Station on Friday after blasting off amid raging tensions between Moscow and Washington over Ukraine. Earlier Friday Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub and NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara lifted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft. The…
