Vice-President, Kashim Shettima, has dismissed the chances of opposition candidates in the 2027 general election, declaring that challenging President Bola Tinubu’s re-election bid would be a futile exercise. Speaking on Friday at the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) held at the State House Conference Centre in Abuja, Shettima asserted […]
The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has been honoured for its progress in improving port efficiency, receiving the Leadership In Action Award from the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) during its Gala Awards Ceremony on Tuesday evening. The Vice President, Kashim Shettima, presented the award to the NPA Managing Director, Dr Abubakar Dantsoho, in recognition […]
Kashim Shettima, Nigeria’s Vice-President, has described the Igbo people as “the Nigerian Jews”, a group he said is geographically mobile, economically enterprising and educationally ambitious. He made the remarks on Tuesday during Peter Mbah’s formal reception into the All Progressives Congress (APC) at Okpara Square, Enugu. During the event, Shettima officially declared the Enugu State […]
The federal government has disbursed N250,000 each to selected small business owners in Ondo state as part of its efforts to empower Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) across the country. The grants were issued during the seventh edition of the Expanded National MSME Clinics held on Tuesday in Akure, the Ondo state capital. Vice-President […]
Vice-President Kashim Shettima has called for the urgent revival of Lake Chad as a strategic move to enhance food security and support Nigeria’s Green Revolution efforts. Speaking at the UN Food Systems Summit +4 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Wednesday, Shettima said restoring the shrinking lake is vital to achieving sustainable and inclusive food systems […]
Kashim Shettima, Vice-President of Nigeria, says the country is deploying modern technology—including artificial intelligence, geospatial analytics and satellite-based climate tools—to transform agriculture and tackle hunger. Shettima spoke on Monday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, during the United Nations Food Systems Summit Stocktake (UNFSS+4), where African leaders made a strong call for coordinated global action on food […]
Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, a former political adviser to President Bola Tinubu, says the president’s failure to personally address rumours about dropping Vice President Kashim Shettima is cause for concern. Speaking on Politics Today, a Channels Television programme, Baba-Ahmed said Tinubu should have publicly shut down the speculation surrounding his 2027 ticket. “I would be very curious […]
The federal government has declared flood prevention a national security priority and unveiled a new anticipatory action framework designed to move Nigeria from reactive emergency response to early, science-led intervention. Kashim Shettima, vice president, made the declaration on Wednesday at the Presidential Villa while receiving the draft plan and consolidated budget from the Anticipatory Action […]
By Andrew Orolua The Vice President Kashim Shettima, has said the pursuit of justice does not happen in a vacuum, so we must work harder in pursuit of it It is shaped by the gatekeepers and personnel of the law, which is why the Body of Benchers is an essential pillar of our sovereign existence, […]
By Ukpono Ukpong Determined to present a strong position that will benefit the country at the forthcoming COP28 Climate Change Conference in the United Arab Emirates, the Vice President, Sen. Kashim Shettima, yesterday constituted an adhoc committee to harmonise Nigeria’s agenda at the event. Speaking during an interaction with stakeholders in his office, the Vice […]
By Ukpono Ukpong Nigeria’s delegation to the G77+China Summit led by Vice President Sen. Kashim Shettima yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Republic of Cuba to further enhance collaboration in the field of Innovation, Science and Technology between the two countries. The signing ceremony which took place on the sidelines of the […]
Vice President Kashim Shettima has arrived at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal. The vice-president, representing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has reportedly taken his seat at the spot allocated to him. Naija News reports that the tribunal is set to rule on the Petition challenging the declaration of Bola Tinubu as the winner of the February […]
By Ukpono Ukpong Vice President (VP) Kashim Shettima has lauded Google’s N1.2 billion grant initiative for the Tinubu administration’s ne million jobs scheme. The VP made the commendation yesterday when he received in audience some executives of Google – a leading global technology company, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. According to him, the announcement of […]
Vice President Kashim Shettima has apologised to Muslims in the country over his recent comment during the National Assembly leadership elections. Politics Nigeria recalls that Shettima had advised lawmakers to vote for a southern Christian, regardless of the candidate’s qualification, over a northern Muslim. “Under the current dispensation, the worst incompetent Southern Christian is better […]
By Tom Garba, Yola A statement by the National Vice Chairman, North East of All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Mustapha Salihu, PhD (Sa’I Adamawa), has given a warm congratulatory note to Senator Kashim Shettima on his emergence as the running mate to the party’s Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The statement stated that Bola […]
Kashim Shettima, a former governor of Borno State, on Friday evening said Vice-President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, who is aspiring for the presidency in 2023, “should be selling ice-cream” because he is “a good and nice man”. He said this while featuring on a programme on Channels TV, monitored by POLITICS NIGERIA. “Osinbajo is a good […]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused Borno State governor, Kashim Shettima on exhibiting deeds and actions that sustain the festering of Boko Haram insurgency in the State. A delegation of Borno State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who were at the PDP national secretariat on Wednesday alleged that the deeds and misdeeds […]
In clever attempt to sweep under the carpet, incontrovertible facts surrounding the April 14, 2014 Chibok abduction, former President Goodluck Jonathan has deliberately omitted in chapter four of his new book, an investigative report submitted to him in June 2014, by the presidential fact-finding committee he constituted in May, 2014, which was mandated to gather […]
Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima on Thursday held emergency meeting with the State Chairman of the NLC, executives of Nigerian Union of Pensioners and some representatives of pensioners facing problems with payment over bottlenecks arising from ongoing data capturing and standardization of pensioners’ payments in the State. The Governor set up a committee made up […]
Borno Governor, Kashim Shettima has given approval for immediate recruitment of 2,000 teachers who will teach in more than 40 newly built and other reconstructed schools, Architect Yerima Saleh, the State’s head of service has announced. Saleh, in a public announcement, said forms are already available at the State civil service commission in Maiduguri which […]