Business

Nigerians have to embrace skills acquisition – Osinbajo

Ihesiulo Grace 17 March 2020 0

Vice President Yemi Osibanjo has said that Nigerians need to embrace skills acquisition as a sustainable alternative to white-collar jobs, adding that about 20 million youths are not employed and yet technicians are imported into the country. Represented by the Minister of Industry, Trade and

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Osinbajo’s outrider dies in road accident

Ihesiulo Grace 13 March 2020 0

The Presidency has announced the death of a police outrider on the convoy of Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo. Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, in a statement in Abuja, said the sad incident occurred on Friday. Sanusi deposed Emir heads to Lagos “With grief […]

Opinion

Celebrating with VP Osinbajo At 63

Ihesiulo Grace 13 March 2020 0

.Day he knelt down to pray at midnight, woke up 4 a.m, without having uttered a word of prayer. Venue was chapel within the Presidential Villa, Asokoro, Abuja. Yes, the same chapel that purveyors of fake news had said President Muhammadu Buhari closed down in 2015. Date was March 8,2020, and the 63rd birthday of […]

Business

Osinbajo wants business reformers, govt agencies, others to do more

Ihesiulo Grace 13 March 2020 0

Temitope Adebayo In order to ensure the government’s efforts in improving the business climate in Nigeria are translated into long term sustainable growth for the economy, stakeholders in the public and private sector will need to redouble their reform efforts, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN. Prof. Osinbajo stated this at the 3rd edition […]

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Osinbajo turns 63

Ihesiulo Grace 8 March 2020 0

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who was born on March 8, 1957, has clocked 62 years. Osinbajo, who survived a helicopter crash in Kogi on Feb.2, 2019, won re-election on Feb. 23, 2019 for another four year term with President Muhammadu Buhari. Nigeria’s 5th Vice President, Osinbajo is the Chairman of the National Economic Council which deliberates […]

Politics

We feel together when you’re with us, Catholic Bishops tell Osinbajo

Ihesiulo Grace 1 March 2020 0

Abuja – The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria ((CBCN) says there is a sense of oneness each time Vice President Yemi Osinbajo identifies with Nigerians, including the church. Osinbajo attended the Opening Mass of the First 2020 Plenary Meeting of CBCN at the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria (CSN), on Sunday in Abuja. The theme of […]

News

Osinbajo, OBJ, Jonathan, govs attend funeral service of Udom’s father

Ihesiulo Grace 15 February 2020 0

Uyo – Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan alongside his wife, Patience, on Saturday attended the funeral service of Elder Emmanuel Nkanang, father of Gov. Emmanuel Udom of Akwa Ibom Ibom State. The service was conducted by  the United Evangelical Church/Qua Iboe Church, Awa-Iman, Onna Local Government Areas of

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Speak up on national unity: Osinbajo tells Nigeria’s policy elite

Ihesiulo Grace 5 February 2020 0

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says there is  need for Nigeria’s policy elite to contribute  to matters of national concern and public discourse, especially on issues of national unity. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Wednesday, said that the vice president, made the appeal when he received the executive council of the Alumni Association […]

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Security challenges: FG to recruit more troops, officers – Osinbajo

Ihesiulo Grace 4 February 2020 0

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says there is an ongoing effort to improve the security situation in the country including plans to recruit more troops and officers to beef up the personnel of security agencies. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Monday in Abuja, said the vice president received at the Presidential Villa, clergymen […]

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Osinbajo marks anniversary of Chopper crash with thanksgiving

Ihesiulo Grace 2 February 2020 0

Abuja – Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has  marked one year of surviving the  2019 helicopter crash  with a thanksgiving service at the Aso Villa Chapel on Sunday in Abuja. Osinbajo,  on Feb. 2, 2019, came out unhurt alongside 11 other persons in a helicopter crash at Kabba, Kogi State, while campaigning for the 2019 general […]

News

Compel Buhari, Osinbajo, govs to publish assets SERAP asks court

Ihesiulo Grace 28 January 2020 0

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court, Abuja to order President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice-President Professor Yemi Osinbajo, 36 state governors and their deputies to “make public details of their assets, specifically property and income, contained in their asset declaration forms submitted to the Code of

Politics

Consider Kano your second home, Emir tells Osinbajo

Ihesiulo Grace 13 January 2020 0

Kano – The Emir of Kano, Malam Muhammadu Sanusi II, on Monday told Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to consider Kano State as his second home. The Emir made the remarks when he received Osinbajo in his palace in Kano. Walking through the second road project he commissioned earlier today in Kano, VP Osinbajo acknowledges cheers […]

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Osinbajo, Obasanjo, Tinubu grace Okoya’s 80th birthday celebration

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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, former President Olusegun Obasanjo and All Progressives Congress(APC) National Leader, Bola Tinubu on Saturday in Lagos graced the 80th birthday celebration of Chief Rasaq Okoya, founder of Eleganza group of companies. Other notable Nigerians that attended the event were Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Minister of Information and

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Only sponsors of N90bn, N40bn allegedly given to Osinbajo believe their tale – APC

Ihesiulo Grace 17 December 2019 0

The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday, has said that those who sponsored the report that N90bn, N40bn allegedly given to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo for election campaigns believed their tales. The APC also called on the sponsors of the ‘baseless allegation to resolve their confusion’ The party in a statement by Lanre Issa-Onilu the […]

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Osinbajo writes Wole Soyinka Centre organisers of 2019 anti-corruption defender award

Ihesiulo Grace 9 December 2019 0

Abuja – The Office of the Vice President has made public the letter which Vice President Yemi Osinbajo wrote to the organisers of Anti-corruption Defender Award of 2019. The letter made available to newsmen on Monday in Abuja, indicated that the vice president had given two reasons why he would not be able to attend the […]

Politics

Wole Soyinka Centre protests Sowore’s rearrest, stops award to Osinbajo

Ihesiulo Grace 9 December 2019 0

The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) says it has postponed the integrity award to be presented to the Vice-President Professor Yemi Osinbajo in protest to the rearrest in court of Omoyele Sowore by the Department of State Security (DSS) on Friday. In the statement signed by Motunrayo Alaka, its executive director, WSCIJ said the award

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Osinbajo harps on culture, tourism in new world order

Ihesiulo Grace 7 December 2019 0

Abeokuta – Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says culture and tourism in the new world order are referred to as soft power because of their influence in economic and international relations. Osinbajo said this on Friday at the Grand Opening Ceremony of the Conference Hotel and Suites, Abeokuta, Ogun State, as the Special Guest of Honour. […]

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Osinbajo applauds NSCIA for promoting interfaith peace, religious tolerance

Ihesiulo Grace 29 November 2019 0

Abuja – Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has commended the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs(NSCIA) for promoting interfaith peace, harmony and tolerance. Osinbajo gave this commendation on Friday while declaring open a three-day General Assembly/National Executive Meeting (NEC) meeting of NSCIA at the Central Mosque, Abuja. He said the council not only

Politics

Osinbajo praises God at sister-in-law’s 60 years anniversary

Ihesiulo Grace 24 November 2019 0

Lagos – Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and wife, Dolapo on Sunday in Lagos danced in  celebration of the 60th birthday of Mrs Bimbola Osinbajo, wife of the vice president’s elder brother, Femi Osinbajo. Osinbajo, who was also joined by his mother, Mrs Olubisi Osinbajo and other family members including the celebrants children, at the Thanksgiving […]

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VP Osinbajo presides over NEC meeting

Ihesiulo Grace 21 November 2019 0

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday presided over the monthly National Economic Council (NEC) meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Nigeria’s Constitution provides that the vice president is the Chairman of NEC. READ ALSO: Ayande presents 1.1trn project The council meeting is held monthly to  deliberate on the coordination of the economic planning efforts and