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President Bola Tinubu on Monday led senior citizens including the leadership of the National Assembly, the armed forces and other critical stakeholders to lay wreath at the national arcade, Abuja, to honour the county’s living and fallen heroes. The Armed Forces Remembrance Day celebration is an event organised annually by the Ministry of Defence to commemorate Nigeria’s fallen heroes who paid the ultimate sacrifice for the sake of humanity during the First and Second World Wars, the Nigerian Civil War, peace support operations around the world, and the different internal security operations. Monday’s ceremony was the climax of this year’s…

President, Bola Tinubu has expressed support for a comprehensive execution of projects and programmes that will facilitate sustainable development of the Niger Delta and improve the lives of the people in the region. Special Assistant to the Minister of Niger Delta Development, Osigwe Omo-Ikirodah in a statement on Sunday said, the President gave the pledge after a crucial meeting with the Minister of Niger Delta Development, Abubakar Momoh at the Presidential Villa. He said that the Minister gave a comprehensive update on the ongoing activities and initiatives within the Niger Delta Development Ministry to the President and also seeking for…

Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance, Mr. Wale Edun has been appointed as chairman of a Special Presidential Panel for the overhaul of the National Social Investment Programmes (NSIP), following revelations of alleged corruption in the scheme. Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Ajuri Ngelale in a statement Saturday said that the Special Presidential Panel is tasked with immediately undertaking a comprehensive review and audit of existing financial frameworks and policy guidelines of the social investment programmes. According to Ngelale, the over all intention is to implement a total re-engineering of the financial architecture of…

Benue State Governor, Reverend Father Hyacinth Alia, on Monday made a formal public acknowledgment of feudal allegiance to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator George Akume, at his private residence in Abuja after a Supreme Court judgment that affirmed his election victory of March 18, 2023. A five-man panel of justices of the Apex Court dismissed an appeal that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate Titus Uba had lodged to challenge the outcome of the election.  Governor Alia was at the Supreme Court personally with crucial members of his team to witness the judgment…

The Supreme Court on Monday affirmed the election of Reverend Father Hyacinth Alia as Benue State Governor, dismissing the appeal by the Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate Titus Uba in the governorship election. A five-man panel of justices of the apex Court, dismissed an appeal that the PDP, and its candidate, lodged to challenge the outcome of the election that held in the state on March 18,2023. The Justice Inyang Okoro-led panel dismissed the appeal after counsel for the appellants, Mr. Sebastian Hon, (SAN), pulled out of the case, which the court noted involved pre-election issues. Speaking to journalists in Abuja…

Niger State Governor, Mohammed Bago, has said that his government providing adequate security that now guarantees farmers to return to their farms. Bago stated this in an interview and with State House Correspondents after meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the presidential Villa, Abuja. He said the State was ready to match the national target to cultivate 500,000 hectares of arable lands for food security. Niger is Nigeria’s largest state in land mass, stretching over 76,000 Km2 but much of its arable, ungoverned spaces, reports indicate have become breeding grounds for terrorist activities in recent years. READ ALSO: Re: Alia…

Governor of Jigawa State, Umar Namadi has said that his government plans to produce two million tonnes of wheat for export and agricultural self-sufficiency through the National Wheat Development Programme and the state’s wheat programme. Namadi stated this on Thursday when he visited President Bola Tinubu on Thursday at the presidential villa, Abuja. He said that Nigeria possessed the capacity to export wheat under the initiative which was aimed at attaining self-reliance. The Jigawa State governor said that President Tinubu during the closed door meeting endorsed the state’s initiative and guaranteed the Federal Government’s backing to enable the forecasts to…

…bans family members from attending FEC President Bola Tinubu on Monday, expressed absolute confidence in the integrity of his Chief of Staff (CoS), Femi Gbajabiamila, insisting that he will no longer tolerate campaigns of calumny but take responsibility on all of his government’s actions and inactions. The President declared this shortly before the commencement of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The office of tbe CoS to the President of Nigeria is a high-ranking official who manages the Office of the President and was created by President Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999. It is modelled after the White House…

Senator Kabir Marafa has advised the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP), in the 2023 presidential election to join hands and support the government of President Bola Tinubu in piloting the affairs of Nigeria for meaningful progress, now that the legal tussle over the President’s emergence has been finally decided by the Supreme Court: Marafa, a former senator representing Zamfara central stated this while speaking with State House Correspondents after a closed door meeting with President Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The Senator explained that given the array…

By Bridget Ikyado There are over 1.5 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) living in various camps in Benue State. They were displaced from their ancestral homes by armed herdsmen and militias and forced to live outside their communities in very excruciating conditions. Moved by the condition of the IDPs, the Executive Governor of Benue State, Rev. Fr Hyacinth Iormem Alia had in the course of his electioneering campaign promised to prioritise the resettlement of all IDPs in the state, for them to return to their normal lives. Since his inauguration, the governor has been coordinating efforts to see to the…