Author: NewsQuest

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike on Monday inaugurated newly elected area council chairmen for the FCT and warned that lax administration, recurring labour strikes and financial mismanagement at the local level would no longer be tolerated. Wike congratulated the new officials who emerged from February’s council polls and described their assumption of office as the start of “a vital new era of grassroots leadership.” He said celebratory rhetoric must give way to measurable results. In a statement by the Deputy Director of Press in the Minister’s office Rabi Musa, Wike said “It will no longer be…

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) on Monday said it has tapped former Rivers State Governor and ex–Transport Minister Rotimi Amaechi as the vice-presidential running mate to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar for the 2027 election. National Publicity Secretary of the party Bolaji Abdullahi described the Atiku–Amaechi pairing as a “unity and rescue ticket.” Abdullahi said Amaechi’s selection followed wide consultations and reflected his strong showing as runner-up in the party’s presidential primary and his record in public office. Amaechi served as speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, was twice elected governor of Rivers State and later ran the…

Benue State will Tuesday host the nation’s First Lady and chair of the Renewed Hope Initiative, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, for a two-part visit focused on women’s programming and urban infrastructure. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor Tersoo Kulas said Senator Tinubu is scheduled to meet beneficiaries of the Renewed Hope Initiative, a federal programme aimed at empowering women, supporting families and boosting services for vulnerable populations. The engagement is intended to deepen the programme’s reach at the local level. Governor Hyacinth Alia has since welcomed the visit as an example of federal–state collaboration. “This is another…

President Bola Timubu’s government has revived road projects in the South‑East that were conceived during the colonial era but left unrealized for decades, Minister of Works Dave Umahi said on Sunday. The intervention is part of President Tinubu’s infrastructure drive across the country. Minister Umahi, a former Governor of Ebonyi State, on Saturday led a delegation of journalists and officials on an inspection tour of legacy projects in the state and highlighted the Calabar‑Ebonyi‑Benue Trans‑Saharan Superhighway as a strategic corridor linking the South‑East, South‑South and portions of the North‑Central region. Director of Media and Publicity, Renewed Hope Ambassadors Tunde Rahman…

President Bola Tinubu has expressed outrage at the killing of retired Major‑General Rabe Abubakar while in the custody of armed kidnappers in Katsina State, and reiterated that his administration will not accede to demands to free detained militants. General Abubakar, who retired from the Nigerian military a few years ago, was en route to his hometown when attackers abducted him, the presidency said in a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy Bayo Onanuga. NewsQuest reports that the  wife of the late General remains in captivity. “Bandits, kidnappers, and sponsors of terror should now surrender…

President Bola Tinubu ordered the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike to allocate a parcel of land in Abuja for the Abdulsalami Abubakar Africa Resource Centre. The directive is part of the administration’s endorsement of the retired General’s post‑service work on peace and democratic governance. Speaking at a public presentation of three books on Saturday, honoring the former Head of State – an event that also marked General Abdulsalami Abubakar’s 84th birthday — President Tinubu who was represented by Vice President Kashim Shettima praised Abubakar as an “elder statesman” whose National Peace Committee promotes stability across Nigeria…

The City Boy Movement on Friday accused unknown organizers of staging a politically motivated picket at its Abuja headquarters. The group in a statement by its Deputy Director-General on Media, Communications and Public Affairs O’tega Ogra said the action was intended to intimidate members, provoke confrontation and advance a false narrative about the organization’s stance on insecurity. “Let us be plain: what took place at our office was not a genuine protest,” O’tega said. “It was a sponsored political action aimed at provoking confrontation, intimidating our members, and pinning a false narrative on the City Boy Movement.” Security has emerged…

By Tanimu Yakubu Introduction: The unsigned commentary under review presents itself as a forensic examination of Nigeria’s recent capital-importation figures. Its central thesis is that because a substantial proportion of recent inflows entered Treasury bills and other money-market instruments rather than factories and industrial enterprises, the inflows should not be interpreted as evidence of confidence in Nigeria’s economy. Instead, they are characterised as speculative, transient and symptomatic of deeper economic weakness. The argument is forcefully stated. Unfortunately, it rests upon a misunderstanding of how capital typically returns to economies emerging from periods of macroeconomic instability and undertaking major policy adjustment.…

A group of more than 50 editors and reporters will convene this weekend for the South‑East leg of a national media inspection tour organized by the Renewed Hope Ambassadors in partnership with the Presidential Media Team. Director of Media and Publicity of the Renewed Hope Ambassadors Tunde Rahman in a statement said the five‑day tour, which begins in Ebonyi State on Saturday, June 13, will visit legacy and ongoing projects across Ebonyi, Enugu, Anambra, Abia and Imo states before concluding in Imo on June 17. According to him, the itinerary includes site inspections, stakeholder meetings, press briefings and roundtable discussions…

President Bola Tinubu on Friday renamed the Institute of Petroleum Studies in Kaduna after General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua, elevating the facility to the General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua University of Geological Sciences and Engineering Technology. In a nationwide address marking this year’s Democracy Day, President Tinubu described General Yar’Adua as one of “the architects of modern democratic Nigeria” and said the renaming recognizes the late officer’s “vision of national partnership.” He said the government has approved a programme to revitalize the completed institute under its new name. “Among the architects of modern democratic Nigeria, we honour General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua for…