Diaspora Education Nigeria

Tinubu applauds Ijeoma Uchegbu’s elevation as President of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge

President Bola Tinubu extended warm congratulations to Ijeoma Uchegbu, a distinguished Nigerian Professor of Pharmaceutical Nanoscience, on her recent appointment as President of Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge. According to Chief Ajuri Ngelale, Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, the President hailed Uchegbu’s remarkable achievements and praised her as a stellar representative Read More…

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Infrastructure Metro Top Story

Lagos targets ₦7 trillion budget for 2024 infrastructure, Sanwo-Olu reveals at business forum

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State outlined the state’s ambitious financial needs, aiming for a staggering ₦7 trillion budget to address infrastructural gaps and essential amenities in the forthcoming fiscal year 2024. During the eighth Lagos Corporate Assembly, themed “BOS Meets with Business Community,” held at Lagos House, Ikeja, Governor Sanwo-Olu underscored the pressing need Read More…

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Business Power Top Story

Nigeria mulls power utility stake transfer to states amid chronic shortages

Nigeria’s government is exploring a strategic shift, considering relinquishing its 40% stake in 11 power distribution companies (DISCOs) to state governments in a bid to enhance oversight and combat the nation’s longstanding power deficits. Adebayo Adelabu, Nigeria’s Minister of Power, revealed plans to potentially exchange federal shares in the DISCOs for stakes in the Niger Read More…

Government Nigeria Top Story

President Bola Tinubu Approves New Ministers and Assigns Portfolios

Tourism finally gets its own ministry New Ministers are approved, and portfolios are assigned by President Bola Tinubu. President Bola Tinubu announced today that he had given the nomination of new ministers and their respective ministries his blessing. The Special Advisor to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Ajuri Ngelale, shared this information with Read More…

Featured Notes Politics Wole Olaoye

Tinubu and Stolen Voices

Following the rather ‘impromptu’ manner of their hero’s declaration of interest in the presidency shortly after informing President Buhari of his intention, Bola Tinubu’s supporters resorted to the old game of stealing the identities, voices and integrity of well regarded men of honour, purporting them to have endorsed Tinubu’s aspiration. The ‘Jankara’ ambush started when Read More…

Nigeria Politics Top Story

Tinubu reveals presidential ambition, says kingmaker can also become king

The National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has dismissed calls in some quarters that he should remain a kingmaker instead of nurturing Presidential ambition in 2023. Tinubu stated this when he fielded questions from State House correspondents after a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in the Presidential Villa Abuja Read More…