Tag: President Tinubu

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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“My backing of Muslim-Muslim ticket was political” – El-Rufa’i

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El Rufa'i Asiwaju

…Says Tinubu’ll crash out in 2027 Former Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufa’i, has defended his support for the All Progressives Congress’ (APC) controversial Muslim-Muslim ticket in the 2023 presidential election, describing it as a purely political strategy — while at the same time predicting that President Bola Tinubu will fare poorly in the 2027 polls. Speaking on a television programme on Sunday, el-Rufai said the pairing of Tinubu and Kashim Shettima had “nothing to do with religion”, but was designed solely to secure electoral victory. According to him,  “It was…

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Tinubu mourns former IGP Solomon Arase

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Tinubu mourns

President Bola Tinubu has condoled  with the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) over Solomon Ehigiator Arase (CFR), the 18th indigenous Inspector-General of Police (IGP), who died yesterday at 69. A press statement from Bayo Onanuga, his  Special Adviser, read in part: “President Tinubu commiserates with the family, friends and associates of the highly resourceful officer. Arase’s reforms as IGP and later as Chairman of the Police Service Commission brought lasting changes to the force. The President acknowledges the dedication of the former IGP to enhancing security in the country, through initiatives…

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“Tinubu’s Brazil visit could unlock $30bn investments” – Gov. Uba Sani

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Uba Sani on Asiwaju

Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani, has said President Bola Tinubu’s state visit to Brazil has the potential to attract over $30 billion in fresh investments into Nigeria’s economy. Speaking with newsmen in Brasília, Sani disclosed that several Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) were signed during the visit, targeting key sectors such as agriculture, aviation, and science and technology. “We’re looking at more than 30 billion dollars in investments in agriculture, food security, aviation, and airspace collaboration between Nigeria and Brazil,” he said. The governor also noted that new agreements in diplomacy,…

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“Don’t play politics with hunger, poverty” – PDP’s Ogidi warns APC

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'PoliticsNOW' yesterday

…Blasts Tinubu over Brazil comment The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has come out strongly against the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), warning it not to play politics with hunger and poverty ravaging Nigerians. Speaking on Liberty TV’s flagship programme: ‘PoliticsNOW’ yesterday, PDP National Vice-Chairman (South-South), Chief Emmanuel Ogidi, described as “reckless” the APC’s reaction to the party’s recent zoning of its 2027 presidential ticket to the South. Ogidi also lampooned President Bola Tinubu’s remark in Brazil that “there is no corruption in Nigeria”, saying such comments were “an insult to…

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“Arrest the slaughter, declare ‘state of emergency’ in Katsina Zamfara” – ADC to Tinubu

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ADC to Tinubu

The African Democratic Congress, (ADC), has condemned the massacre in Malumfashi, Katsina State, where dozens of worshippers and villagers were brutally killed, describing it as further proof of Nigeria’s collapsed security architecture. In a strongly-worded statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, the party linked the killings to a broader wave of terror in Katsina and Zamfara that has claimed over 140 lives in two months, and called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to stop “jet-setting across the world” and urgently declare a State of Emergency in the…

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