Tag: President Tinubu

31yrs after, Tinubu honours ‘Ogoni-4’ with National Awards

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Tinubu honours 'Ogoni 4

Thirty-one years after their deaths, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday conferred posthumous national honours of Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON) on the Late Ogoni leaders: Albert Badey, Edward Kobani, Theophilus Orage and Samuel Orage, collectively remembered as the “Ogoni Four”. Tinubu announced the conferment while receiving the report of the Ogoni Consultations Committee at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Recall that in 1994, in Ogoniland, Rivers State, internecine strife culminated in the lynching of the four prominent Ogoni chiefs by irate youths. They were reportedly holding a meeting…

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“Nigeria owes you a lot” – Tinubu hails wife on 65th birthday

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Tinubu hails wife

President Bola Tinubu on Sunday celebrated his wife’s 65th birthday, saying Nigeria owes the First Lady a lot. In a statement, the President described Oluremi as the love of his life and a steadfast source of strength through years of political struggle and public service. He said his wife had been his anchor during difficult seasons, from years of exile to the demands of leadership, standing by him with patience, dignity, and devotion. “As you celebrate your 65th birthday today, I honour not only the love of my life, but…

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Tinubu suspends Rivers emergency rule

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Fubara to resume

…Fubara to resume today President Bola Tinubu has suspended the emergency rule in Rivers State. In a statement issued by the Presidency yesterday, Tinubu asked Siminalayi Fubara, the suspended governor, to resume work today, Thursday, September 18. The President also asked the Deputy Governor, Ngozi Nma Odu, and members of the Rivers State House of Assembly to resume their duties. Tinubu had declared a state of emergency in Rivers State six months ago. Tinubu, while lifting the state-of-emergency in the oil rich state on Wednesday, said, “It therefore gives me…

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2027: Tinubu faces pressure, as INEC boss bows out in 60 days

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Tinubu INEC Chair Yakubu

…Observers are asking: “Who’ll take charge of polls?” With just 60 days left until the end of Professor Mahmood Yakubu’s historic decade at the helm of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Nigeria is on edge over who will steer the nation’s elections into 2027. Yakubu’s second and final five-year tenure officially winds down on November 9, 2025 – a day after he supervises his last major poll, the Anambra governorship election. That vote, set for November, 8 across 5,720 polling units, could well define his legacy. Appointed in 2015…

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“Ignore call for sack of Service Chiefs”, Ndume tells Tinubu

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Ndume on Service Chiefs

…Seeks adequate funding, training for Armed Forces Former Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to ignore calls for the sack of his Service Chiefs. The former Chairman of the Senate Committee on Army made the call in a statement yesterday. Ndume’s advice to President Tinubu was on the heels of agitation for the removal of the Service Chiefs by a group, the Northern Ethnic National Forum. Convener of the group, Dominic Alancha, had on Tuesday in a statement, claimed that the present crop of Service Chiefs…

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Tinubu, Macron hold private lunch meeting in France

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Tinubu, Macron

President Bola Tinubu, yesterday, held a private working lunch with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée Palace in Paris, as his 10-day working leave entered its fifth day. Photographs released by the State House showed both leaders in a warm handshake before proceeding into the palace. Tinubu is currently on the second tranche of his annual leave, which he is spending between France and the United Kingdom. Yesterday’s meeting marks his seventh visit to Paris since assuming office in May 2023, and his first since attending the BRICS summit…

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Reckless Borrowing: “Next loan will be from Opay!” – Dino Melaye taunts Tinubu 

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Dino Melaye taunts Tinubu

…Declares PDP dead, sold to APC  Outspoken ex-Kogi Senator, Dino Melaye, has torn into President Bola Tinubu, mocking his “endless borrowing spree” and warning that Nigerians may soon see the president turn to fintech apps like Opay and Moniepoint for loans. Speaking during a televised interview on Monday, Melaye mocked Tinubu’s mounting debt profile, warning that the administration’s appetite for loans had reached absurd levels. “There is massive hunger in the land. Why is the president borrowing $1.7 billion from the World Bank? Why has the Senate approved $21 billion…

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Tinubu heads to France, UK for 10-day ‘working vacation’ 

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Tinubu departs

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu departed Abuja yesterday, to commence a working vacation in Europe, as part of his 2025 annual leave. According to a press statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President (Information & Strategy), Bayo Onanuga, the vacation will last 10 working days. President Tinubu will spend the period between France and the UK and then return to the country, the statement added.

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President Tinubu makes fresh appointments

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Tinubu on appointments

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved new appointments in the leadership of recently established federal universities of education. The appointments were conveyed via a statement released yesterday by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga. The President named Engineer AbdulRazaq Abubakar Nakore as Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council of Yusuf Maitama Sule Federal University of Education, Kano. Nakore, a Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, previously served as Executive Secretary of the Rural Electricity Board in Jigawa State. Similarly, Prof. Abdullahi Tukur Kodage was appointed…

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New NTA appointments: Tinubu makes U-turn, returns erstwhile DG

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Tinubu on NTA

Tinubu has directed the recall of Salihu Abdullahi Dembos as Director-General of the Nigerian Television Authority, (NTA), and Ayo Adewuyi as Executive Director (News). The decision, conveyed in a statement yesterday by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, effectively restores the two senior executives to their tenures, which were briefly disrupted by changes in NTA management.

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