The President tasked all new aides serving in the Media and Publicity directorate to uphold the highest standards of decorum and decency in their engagements with all members of the public. President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of five new aides to serve in the Media and Publicity Directorate of the Office of the President. A statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, on Monday, said...
Tijani reportedly complained of ill health days ago. A National Assembly correspondent, Adeyemi Yinusa Tijani, has been pronounced dead. The news of his death came to reporters at the Senate Press Center about an hour ago via a phone call. Tijani, who worked with the Nigerian Tribune at the time of his death, reportedly slumped within the National Assembly premises Wednesday morning., and was rushed to the SGF hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Tijani...
The Ghanaian President said the seminar by ECOWAS was organised to find solutions to the political and security challenges facing the region as well as find the root causes of democratic regression and political Instability in the region. The President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, has called on West African leaders to entrench the principles of democratic accountability in the citizens, saying that democracy in West Africa is in danger. Akufo-Addo noted that recent incidences of...
The affected staff also accused Umahi of violating public service regulations by interfering with the work of engineers and directors and hiring consultants to manage the ministry’s operations. The Minister of Works, Senator Dave Umahi, was earlier locked in his office by angry staff of the ministry. According to reports, the Minister had Thursday morning, barred staff, who reported late to work from accessing the building. A Union representative in the Ministry, Williams Kudi, told...
Rep. Aliyu said the project looks to reduce the number of out-of-school children through a non-formal accelerated education system and other alternative schooling programmes. The House of Representatives has disclosed that it is working on a project that will ensure that over 14 million out-of-school Nigerian children are back to school. This is according to the chairman of the Committee on Alternative Education, Rep. Ibrahim Al Mustapha Aliyu (APC, Sokoto). Aliyu, who disclosed this during...
Rep. Ihonbvere said he is ready to go the entire length of the law with the Nigerian customs. The chairman of the House of Representatives ad-hoc committee probing the disposal of public property, Rep. Julius Ihonbvere, has threatened to invoke relevant legislative powers to compel the Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Adewale Adeniyi, to appear before the committee and give details of government property sold by the Service by the Organizations between 2010...
Danzaria said the purpose of the workshop is to encourage discourse on best possible practices for building parliamentary capacity in security sector governance. The Clerk of the House of Representatives, Dr. Yahaya Danzaria, has called on clerks of security-related standing committees in the National Assembly, to build parliamentary capacity toward resolving conflicts in the country. This, according to him, must be done with an emphasis on promoting collaboration among the clerks of all security-centered committees...
Dr. Orji said details of the NEITI report will support civil society with their advocacy, public debates, and tracking of reforms in the sector to hold government at all levels and companies accountable. Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, (NEITI) has revealed that the total unremitted revenues to the Federation by some relevant government agencies and companies in the oil and gas sector in the year 2021 have risen to over $9.85bn. This is even...
Ngelale said Cardos’s nomination as CBN Governor reflects President Tinubu’s commitment to implementing crucial reforms at the Apex Bank. President Bola Tinubu has nominated Dr. Olayemi Michael Cardoso as the new Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). News of the nomination is contained in a statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media & Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, on Friday in Abuja. If confirmed by the Senate, Dr. Cardoso will...
The clerk of the committee said the chairman had directed that the hearing was not for media coverage. The House of Representatives ad-hoc committee investigating the utilization of ecological funds released to the National Agency for Great Green Wall (NAGGW), on Tuesday, barred journalists from covering its proceedings. Recall that the committee was last week, inaugurated by Speaker Tajudeen Abbas, who said the hearing is to probe all funds received from international organisations and donor...
