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PRESIDENT BUHARI DEMANDS TRANSPARENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY FROM NEW NNPC BOARD President Muhammadu Buhari Friday in Abuja urged the Board of the newly incorporated Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited to ensure strict compliance with Corporate Governance principles that place premium on doing business with the highest ethical standards, integrity, and transparency. …

Some of the persons appointed into the Board and Management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) are allies of President Muhammadu Buhari. According to Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, Buhari appointed them in accordance with the power vested on him under Section 59(2) of the Petroleum Industry Act he …

Real Reason Buhari Didn’t Disclose His Candidate For 2023 – Osinbajo’s Promoters Chairman of the Public Opinion Leaders Group, a unit of The Progressive Project (TPP), Shettima Umar Abba Gana, yesterday said President Muhammadu Buhari didn’t disclose the identity of his preferred candidate ahead of the 2023 presidential election, during …

Interpol Systems Consultant and renowned philanthropist, Sir Chikwe Udensi has declared that he wants to be governor of Abia State come 2023, Newsextra24 reports. This is even as he insists that he has the drive, capacity, motive, and motivation to lead God’s Own State. “Of course, I want to be …

Strong indications emerged yesterday that the move to draft former President Goodluck Jonathan into the 2023 presidential race may have altered existing alliances within the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). New Telegraph learnt exclusively that Governor of Sokoto State and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) potential presidential hopeful, Aminu Tambuwal, may …

2023: APC should repay Tinubu’s sacrifice with Presidential ticket — Ondo Support Group A group, Ondo State Network for Tinubu has said that the National leader of the All Progressive Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu should be compensated with the party’s Presidential ticket in 2023 for his sacrifices for both the …

Governors from the South, under the aegis of Southern Governors’ Forum (SGF), are no longer on the same page on their earlier resolution that political par­ties in the country, especially the rul­ing All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), must not field any Northerner as presidential candidate …

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has said it was hypocritical for President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the heavily padded and unimplementable 2022 budget passed by the National Assembly but declined assent to the Electoral Act Amendment Bill. The governor said the speed at which the President signed the 2022 budget …

The Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) says it has no connection with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, former Lagos Governor Bola Tinubu and Ekiti Governor Kayode Fayemi. Publicity Secretary, Yinka Oguntimehin said the organization was not involved with a “Mega Accord of 57 civil society groups rooting for southwest presidential candidate”. In …

Going by what’s in the 2022 budget, the seat of power will spend N402.2 million on maintenance of office equipment, furniture, buildings, vehicles, generators and others. Also, President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo are to spend N3. 087 billion on travels within and outside the country this year. …