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President-elect, Bola Tinubu and Vice President-elect, Kashim Shettima have both been sworn in as President and Vice President of Nigeria, respectively. The Oath of Office was administered by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Kayode Ariwoola, on Monday. Tinubu, a former Senator and governor of Lagos State was declared the winner of the February 2023 presidential election by the Independent National …

President-elect Bola Tinubu will be sworn in today as Nigeria’s 16th leader since the country’s independence in 1960. Kashim Shettima will be inaugurated as the nation’s new vice president. Both will be succeeding President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo whose second four-year term lapses today. The inauguration of Messrs Tinubu and Shettima will hold at Eagle Square, Abuja. The Independent …

…as Tinubu takes oath of officeJohn Alechenu, Abuja The National Chairman of the Labour Party, Barr. Julious Abure, has said that Nigeria deserves better than the kind of leadership currently being offered by those he referred to “as the same characters” who are responsible for the misery of Nigerians. Abure said this in a statement reiterating the party’s position on …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki and the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire at the weekend inaugurated the South-South Zone Traditional Leaders’ Committee on Primary Health Care (PHC) delivery to strengthen efforts at improving health systems and access to quality and efficient health care services in the region. The committee was inaugurated at the Government House in Benin City, …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said the ongoing Edo State Residency Card scheme will enable the state government plan effectively in delivering education, healthcare and other critical services to the people. He disclosed this at the 2023 ID4Africa Augmented General Meeting held in Nairobi, Kenya, with the theme, ‘Digital Identity as Public Infrastructure.’ According to him, “To enable …

The proposed swearing-in of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as President of Nigeria, on May 29 2023 will be tantamount to an enthronement of tragedy in Nigeria. This view was expressed by a Conflict Resolution expert, Comrade Igbotako Nowinta in statement he issued to journalists in Benin City, Edo State capital at the weekend. Nowinta said …

In his farewell speech to the United Nations General Assembly last September, President Muhammadu Buhari urged the annual gathering of world leaders to uphold “justice, honour, integrity, ceaseless endeavour, and partnership”. Contrary to his call for justice, the actions of the Nigerian leader since he assumed office as democratic president in 2015 have been characterised by many cases of injustice …

The wife of the President-elect, Oluremi Tinubu has assured Nigerians that her family does not need the wealth of the nation to survive as God has blessed them. She made this known during the interdenominational church service that was held on Sunday in Abuja at the National Christian Centre. The president-elect’s wife added that the wealth of the nation belongs …

The President-elect Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has identified the pending plans to remove petroleum subsidy and end the multiple foreign currency exchange rates as issues that will pose the initial challenge to the in-coming administration. The President-elect noted this while speaking at the public lecture and Jumat Prayer at the National Mosque in Abuja as part of the 2023 Presidential …

Upon leaving office tomorrow, President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and ministers, among others, would go home with billions of naira as severance package. The development happening in a struggling economy has sparked outcry. The funds represent their total disengagement benefits as prescribed by the Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Allocation Commission, RMAFAC. Meanwhile,  wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, …