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Public-private partnerships should be treated as a governance model, not merely a financing tool, if the nation’s newly empowered local governments are to deliver visible development to communities, Sunday Dare said Tuesday at an annual lecture in Lagos. Speaking to a packed hall of guests, Dare hailed President Bola Tinubu’s recent move to grant financial autonomy to the nation’s 774 local government councils as “one of the most consequential governance reforms in Nigeria’s democratic history.” He urged councils across the country to leverage public-private partnerships, or PPPs, to drive sustainable grassroots development and to translate autonomy into improved service delivery…

A delegation of the Renewed Hope Ambassadors and the presidential communications office toured a string of Federal and States projects in Imo State on Wednesday, presenting the visits as evidence of growing cooperation between President Bola Tinubu’s administration and Governor Hope Uzodimma. The National Media Tour, organised by the Governor-led Renewed Hope Ambassadors in collaboration with the presidential media team, brought more than 40 senior journalists to inspect major transport, education and health works across the south-east. Director of Media and Publicity of the Renewed Hope Ambassadors Tunde Rahman in a statement said the initiative was intended to give Nigerians…

President Bola Tinubu will attend the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in September to press nation’s reform agenda and champion a UN-backed initiative to tighten border security across West Africa, Nigeria’s Ambassdor to the UN said Tuesday. Ambassador Jimoh Ibrahim, Nigeria’s Permanent Representative, told State House Correspondenrs after a closed-door meeting with President Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja that Tinubu accepted an invitation to the 80th session in New York. President Tinubu he explained will use his address to highlight the administration’s economic and governance measures. The President according to him, will also attend a series of high-level side…

President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday said that Nigeria’s economy is on a steady growth path after three years of bold and strategic financial, and fiscal reforms. The President therefore, urged greater collaboration with Deloitte Africa to channel investment and jobs into the country. NewsQuest reports that Deloitte Africa is a one-network of cross-border advisory platform for businesses operating on the continent. Speaking at the Presidential Villa, Abuja after receiving a delegation led by Deloitte Africa CEO Ruwayda Redfearn, President Tinubu described the reforms of his government  as foundational work that had begun to stabilize public finances and spur measurable improvement…

Vice President Kashim Shettima on Wednesday unveiled a $500 million Niger Delta Agricultural Investment Fund, to restore the nation’s historic role as an agricultural economy and to reduce the country’s dependence on food imports. Speaking at the Niger Delta Agricultural Development and Investment Summit in Abuja, convened by his office and the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Shettima described the fund as a market-driven vehicle that will span the agricultural value chain—from aquaculture and palm oil to cassava, cocoa, rice, horticulture, marine resources and livestock. Stanley Nkwocha, his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Communications quoted the Vice President in…

The Federal Government on Tuesday inaugurated a high‑level Ministerial Advisory Committee to advise on implementation of fiscal and macroeconomic reform programme, Minister of Finance said. Taiwo Oyedele, Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Taiwo Oyedele, convened the meeting which brought together senior figures from the public and private sectors, academia, finance and industry to provide non‑executive, external counsel on policy design, fiscal governance and reform execution. The Minister said the panel is intended to strengthen evidence‑based decision‑making, deepen stakeholder engagement and ensure that recent policy changes — including fuel‑subsidy removal, exchange‑rate unification and a sweeping tax overhaul…

President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday inaugurated a 198‑kilometer pipeline linking Bwari township and nearby communities to treated water from Lower Usuma Dam, calling the project a tangible result of his administration’s “Renewed Hope” agenda and pledging similar interventions across the Federal Capital Territory. “Water is life. Clean water is dignity,” Tinubu said at the commissioning ceremony, held in Bwari Area Council. “It is a fundamental right, not a luxury.” He said the network ends decades of reliance on untreated boreholes and streams and was built after he instructed the FCT minister to “mobilize the best, and fix it.” The project,…

The Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, on Tuesday urged Nigerian youths to place national interest above personal ambition and embrace service and sacrifice as drivers of the country’s recovery and long‑term development. O’tega Ogra, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Digital & New Media who also serves as Deputy Director‑General Media, Communications & Public Affairs, City Boy Movement in a statement said Gbajabiamila in a goodwill message to participants at the City Boy Movement’s 2026 National Retreat, themed “Youth, Unity and Action,” explained that the nation’s future would be shaped intentionally by a generation willing to…

President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday declared that Nigeria will stop exporting raw cocoa beans. The government, he said will instead push the crop through local processing plants, a move aimed at capturing more of the global chocolate industry’s value and boosting jobs and foreign earnings. Speaking at the Cocoa Value Addition Summit in Abuja, President Tinubu — represented at the event by Agriculture Minister Abubakar Kyari — described the policy shift as a corrective to decades in which African producers supplied the world’s cocoa but earned only a sliver of the finished-product profits. “Seven of every ten cocoa pods on…

The National Pension Commission (PenCom) on Tuesday moved to calm growing unrest within the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), saying it is pursuing improvements to officers’ retirement benefits rather than advocating their withdrawal from the country’s Contributory Pension Scheme. NewsQuest reports that retired police officers have been pressing for removal from the Contributory Pension Scheme, arguing that it has left many of them impoverished after service. Senate President Godswill Akpabio reportedly said the issue would receive speedy consideration, and the Senate later concurred with the House on bill related to Police pension issues. Ms. Omolola Oloworaran, Director-General of PenCom, told State…