Government

Joseph Eboigbe –Commissioner for Finance Prof. Obehi Akoria –Commissioner for Health Mrs. Otse Momoh-Omorogbe – Commissioner for Budget and Planning Dr. Joan Osa Oviawe – Commissioner for Education Isoken Omo – Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development. Moses Agbukor – Commissioner for Water Resources Ethan Uzamere – Commissioner for …

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, on Friday, were among other dignitaries at the final burial ceremony of the late former Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala, in Ogbomoso. Others present were Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo, while the Governors of Ogun and Kwara …

James Faleke, a member of the House of Representatives, has accused the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola of lying against Bola Tinubu, a presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Faleke said contrary to Aregbesola’s claim, Tinubu has never played God to his political followers and associates. Instead, Faleke …

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, on Friday urged lawmakers, both at the federal and state levels from the state, to work assiduously to actualise the presidential ambition of Chief Bola Tinubu. Sanwo-Olu gave the advice in Ikeja, during the 17th Edition of the Executive/Legislative Parley, with the theme: ”Mobilizing …

Aminu, the younger brother of Niger Governor Abubakar Sani-Bello, has left the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He joined the PDP with some politicians in Niger North Senatorial District. Among those who defected with him was an APC chieftain, Abubakar Buhari. The development took place …

Crisis seems to be brewing in the National Assembly over appointment of substantive clerk of the Senate. Some staff members of the National Assembly have threatened to embark on another round of protest over what they described as attempt to play politics with appointment of Senate clerk. Some staff members, …

The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has stated that it would use the instrumentality of the Finance Act 2021, through collaboration with taxpayers and key stakeholders to ensure adequate funding of the country’s budget and raise the requisite financing for national development. This was stated by the Executive Chairman of …

Following the intervention of Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, officials of the State Government and representatives of the Shangisha Landlords Association (the judgment creditors) held a series of meetings at which both parties explored the possibility of complying with the judgment of the Supreme Court. At the said meetings two …

Some prominent personalities from the Southeastern Nigeria, under the aegis of Igbo Elders Consultative Forum (IECF), have threatened to sanction any Igbo politician who accepts to be running mate to anyone not from the region. The Igbo elders said their geo-political zone must produce the next president of Nigeria. There …

Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has said former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, and his successors elected under the Peoples Democratic Party platform built the Second Niger bridge with mouth for sixteen years. Adesina, who made the claim in an article titled, ‘NDABOSKI! If Only …