President Bola Tinubu on Thursday renamed University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) in Borno after the late former President Muhammadu Buhari. The university is now known as Muhammadu Buhari University. The President made the announcement during a special Federal Executive Council (FEC) session in Abuja. The session, convened in[Read More…]
President Bola Tinubu has summoned an emergency meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) in honour of former president, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) who passed away on Sunday in a hospital in the United Kingdom. In a statement he signed, Tinubu also directed that all national flags[Read More…]
… Tinubu orders Shettima to accompany his body back home Former President Muhammadu Buhari is dead. According to a statement by the ex-President’s spokesman Garba Shehu, Buhari died in an undisclosed clinic in London. He said: “The family of the former president has announced the passing on[Read More…]
The Nigeria Revenue Service (Establishment), NRS bill, has replaced the current Federal Inland Revenue Service Act in the new tax bill President Bola Tinubu signed into law on Thursday. The NRS bill is one of the four bills President Tinubu signed into law which will transform Nigeria’s fiscal[Read More…]
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has conferred national honours on notable Nigerians, including posthumous awards for late pro-democracy activists, politicians, journalists, and civil rights leaders, as part of activities marking Nigeria’s 2025 Democracy Day celebration. Tinubu described the honourees as ‘heroes and heroines of democracy.’ The president,[Read More…]
President Bola Tinubu has written to both chambers of the National Assembly, requesting legislative approval for a new external borrowing plan of 21.5 billion dollars, alongside a domestic bond issuance of ₦757.9 billion for outstanding pension liabilities. Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and the Speaker of the House[Read More…]
President Bola Tinubu has vowed to ensure that every asset stolen from the country is recovered. The president made the assertion on Tuesday in Abuja while declaring open a Summit on Asset Recovery. The president was represented by the Permanent Secretary, Political and Economic Affairs in the Office of the[Read More…]
President Bola Tinubu on Monday declared a national emergency on food security, urging expanded irrigation infrastructure and participatory water resource management nationwide. Tinubu made the declaration while opening the 6th African Regional Conference on Irrigation and Drainage in Abuja. He was represented by the Secretary to[Read More…]
President Bola Tinubu has removed the chairman, Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited board, Pius Akinyelure, and the Group Chief Executive Officer, Mele Kyari. Tinubu also appointed Bashir Ojulari as Kyari’s replacement with immediate effect. Bayo Onanuga, Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, announced the development in a statement he[Read More…]
Retired Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas, the Administrator of Rivers, has said he would work together with all stakeholders to maintain law and order in the state. Ibas spoke with State House correspondents after his swearing-in by President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Wednesday. Mr Lateef[Read More…]
