Vice President Kashim Shettima on Sunday returned to Abuja after successfully representing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the just concluded 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, USA. The Vice President, who represented President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, had presented Nigeria’s National Statement at the General Debate, as well as engaged […]
By Tunde Opalana As permutations among politicians continue ahead of the 2023 presidential race, a group of progressives have trump up the name of Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo as a good successor to President Muhammadu Buhari. The body, Progressive Consolidation Group (PCG) reasoned that Osinbajo will be a choice candidate from the Muhammadu Buhari […]
The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has congratulated the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on the 63rd birthday. The association thanked God for his life and the indelible contributions he is making to the development of the nation and the church in Nigeria. The National President, PFN, Rev. Felix Omobude in a statement on Sunday […]
…Indicted directors to tarnish Osinbajo’s image A Yoruba Affront Group, Progressive Yoruba Youth Congress (PPYC) has raised its eye over an attempt to blackmail vice president, Yemi Osinbajo in the current probe of alleged N2.5 billion fraud at the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The groups President, […]
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has told the Federal Government to fight corruption and stop hounding members of the opposition parties in the name of fighting corruption, stressing that the real corrupt people are within the circle of APC government. The party frowned at the Motion Experte filed by the Special Presidential Investigation Panel […]
In line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s directives that all appointed boards chairmen and members of federal agencies and parastatals be inaugurated within a stipulated timeframe, the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF) has announced a date for the inauguration of the boards under the office of the Vice President. The […]
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that the Boko Haram sect has been weakened and was no longer a serious fighting force despite the ugly incidents witnessed recently in Dapchi, Yobe State and Rann, Borno State. Osinbajo, however, said that the separate incidents were not indications that the government was fighting a war that cannot […]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the death of the former Vice President, Alex Ekwueme as a big blow to the party and nation’s democracy which the late patriarch had laboured to institutionalise in Nigeria. In a statement, the National Vice Chairman of the party in the South East zone, Chief Austin Umahi noted […]
…World Bank Doing Business report on Nigeria fantastic, & is proof that Buhari administration’s reforms are working, says Osinbajo ….The presidency to make dramatic policy changes in Oil & Gas sector if necessary. Despite Nigeria’s latest impressive ranking in the World Bank’s latest ‘Doing Business’ report, the Buhari administration will continue to actively pursue its […]
Former Nigerian Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode (FFK) has described Nigeria’s Vice President, Professor Osinbajo as a pernicious and unrepentant liar, as well as a peddler of falsehood. FFK gave this description in a tweet published via his official twitter handle @realFFK on Saturday. According to Fani, an antagonist of the Buhari’s administration, VP Osinbajo […]
Alhaji Ahmed Dogara, former member of Niger House of Assembly, on Saturday urged the Federal Government to declare it’s position on the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation and the NIA boss. The presidency on April 19, suspended from office the SGF, Babachir Lawal, and the Director-General of the NIA, Ayo Oke, pending […]
Idu Jude Abuja As the 2019 general elections draw near, the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has commissioned yet another ultra modern campaign secretariat built by the Mohammadu Buhari campaign organization, architects of the election of the President in 2015. The Vice President Friday in Abuja, commended the efforts of the group describing them as […]
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday met with the minister of state for petroleum resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu and the group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr Maikanti Baru, at the presidential villa in Abuja. Speaking with State House correspondents at the end of the meeting, Kachikwu stated that issues around […]
* SAN, Odinkalu slams Buhari for delay on Osinbajo report * ‘President would have acted if PDP is involved’ * No, FG will act at the appropriate time- Femi Adesina Mathew Dadiya, Andrew Orolua and Francesca Iwambe, Abuja Fifty-six days after Vice President Yemi Osinbajo-led panel presented its report on the suspended Secretary to the […]
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has called for greater integration of African economies to enable the continent develop free trade among AU member nations. Osinbajo made the call at the inaugural meeting of the Africa Champions Group, an initiative of business and manufacturing stakeholders in the continent, on Saturday in Lagos. He said that regional integration […]
Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council has completed a 60-day national action plan with 70 per cent of success and has started the second 60-day national action plan. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo disclosed this in an interview after opening “The Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Forum 2017’’ in Lagos on Saturday. He stated that the government had […]
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that inadequate power is the major obstacle to full economic development in Nigeria. According to the VP, the problem of irregular power supply in Nigeria is caused by inaccurate billing system resulting from insufficient metering machines. Osinbajo who made the remarks on Saturday in Onna local government area of […]
On Tuesday, September 12, 2017 Vice President Yemi Osinbajo arrived Ondo state for the 2nd National Council on Niger Delta meeting. At the airport and venue of the meeting there was tight security provided by the police, Army, Civil Defence Corps and road marshals among others. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Osinbajo […]
The Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has flagged off the Student Christian Movement (SCM) anti-corruption war campaign tagged ‘Students SAY NO to Corruption.’ The Vice President who was represented by the Chaplain of Aso Villa Chapel, Pastor Seyi Malomo, called on the movement and her partners to deploy their […]
Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, is expected to lead the federal government negotiation team meeting with striking university lecturers, rescheduled to hold today The Minister for Labour, Employment and Productivity, Dr. Chris Ngige, told newsmen on Wednesday after the Federal Executive Council meeting, that Mr Osinbajo will now lead the negotiations. Recall that ASUU, have been […]