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.
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
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 […]
Gov Shettima meets pensioners, gives c’ttee 2 weeks ultimatum to address bottlenecks over biometrics
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 […]
Borno Governor, Kashim Shettima on Friday launched 15 heavy duty construction equipment worth N550 million (five hundred and fifty million naira) dedicated for construction of a highway from Ngala to Kala-Balge local government areas through Rann, the latter’s headquarter in the northern part of the State. The equipment include sets of heavy lifting cranes, graders,
Governor of Borno and Chairman, Northern States Governors’ Forum, Kashim Shettima, travelled from Maiduguri to Katsina State on Sunday on a condolence visit to the family of late Ibrahim Coomassie, former Inspector General of Police who until his death, was Chairman of Arewa Consultative Forum, a body of elders from Northern Nigeria. Shettima had previously […]
Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno on Monday described the Boko Haram insurgents’ Sunday night attack on communities in Jere Local Government Area of the state as “sad and inhumane”. Shetiima told newsmen when he visited the over 80 victims of the attack on treatment at the Specialist Hospital, Maiduguri that the attack indicated high level […]
Borno governor, Kashim Shettima on Sunday paid a visit to Damaturu, capital of Yobe State, where he paid courtesy call on Governor Ibrahim Gaidam with his message meant to strengthen his host following recent attacks on Government Girls’ Science Technical College (GGSTC), Dapchi, headquarters of Bursari Local Government Area in Yobe State, where schoolgirls were […]
Governor Kashim Shettima on Thursday presented Borno’s 2018 Budget of N170. 2 billion with education getting the highest amount of N27 billion in an estimate that allocated 65 percent for capital projects leaving recurring with N61.8 billion. Addressing the State House of Assembly in Maiduguri, the Governor announced that the draft, titled, ‘Budget of
Former governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff has alleged that the governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima is behind the Boko Haram terrorists that have been unleashing mayhem on the people of the North East zone of the country describing him as “the Boko Haram boss and the keeper of Chibok Girls.” Sheriff made […]
Some Nigerians have just been awakened to consciousness that Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, would forever remain evergreen in the memory of Nigerian masses among the chronology of our leaders since independence. Mouthing his difference about the leadership of Nigeria failed to convince many skeptics, until he began manifesting his spartan and honest leadership
The Borno State government is to commission 432 resettlement houses for victims of Boko Haram in three villages on Monday, March 6, 2017. A statement by the government said 13 primary and junior secondary schools, a General Hospital, five Primary Healthcare centres would also be commissioned, as well as the distribution of irrigation items, mobile […]
There is an ugly development that should give all truly patriotic Nigerians concerns. It has to do with the turn of events in the North East of the country, which has been the hotbed of the Boko Haram insurgency. What is at stake here is the seeming indifference – if not active undermining – to […]