Vice President Kashim Shettima has aborted his official visit to the United States where he was scheduled to represent President Bola Tinubu at this year’s U.S-Africa Business Summit in Dallas, Texas. He was scheduled to have left Abuja on Sunday evening. The change of plans followed a technical fault in his aircraft, forcing him to make a detour. A statement …

Vice President Kashim Shettima has departed Abuja to represent President Bola Tinubu at the International Development Association (IDA21) Heads of State Summit taking place on Monday in Nairobi, Kenya. The high-level gathering hosted by Kenyan President William Ruto will see African leaders unite to call for an ambitious replenishment of the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) concessional lending arm. …

Vice President Kashim Shettima has unveiled an ambitious plan to improve nutrition across Nigeria, with a rallying call to faith and traditional leaders to champion the effort in their communities. At a high-level dialogue on nutrition at the Presidential Villa Tuesday, the Vice President stressed that Nigeria’s future readiness hinges not just on food abundance but on the nourishing quality …

Vice President Kashim Shettima has expressed optimism about the performance of Nigeria’s currency, the Naira, at the forex market, saying it will appreciate more as the dollar continues to crash. He says President Bola Tinubu had to end fuel subsidy and ensure the unification of the multiple exchange rate because the former arrangement was producing billionaires overnight. The VP stated …

Vice President Kashim Shettima led the mourning of the late first civilian Governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, describing him as a visionary leader and a man of exceptional intellect. In his solemn tribute during a National Night of Tribute in honour of the late elder statesman at the grand arena of the THISDAY Dome in Abuja on Monday …

Nigeria’s Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, on Tuesday left public relations professionals in the country with a task to serve as guardians of truth and national integration through effective communication in the face of a growing threat by purveyors of disinformation. The Vice President, who spoke when he declared open the maiden edition of National Spokespersons Summit, organised by the …

The Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima has said that the flag-off of the training on digitalisation of workflow processes in the State House is a fulfilment of President Bola Tinubu’s promise to build an efficient workforce that is in tune with reality, leveraging technology. The training, the Vice President added, is a compelling testament to the President’s steadfast adherence to …

A presidential aspirant of one of the two mainstream political parties in the United States of America has just lost the nomination to his opponent in a keenly contested presidential primary. Thinking that the combination of both men would make a formidable team in the looming presidential election, the loser was asked whether, if contacted, he would accept to be …

The bid by the Bola Tinubu administration to ensure food security through transformation of agricultural productivity in the country has received a major boost with a consortium of mid-sized agriculture companies pledging to support millions of farmers across different value chains in the country. During the group’s courtesy visit to the Presidential Villa on Friday, Vice President Kashim Shettima commended …

Vice President Kashim Shettima on Thursday inaugurated the Intergovernmental Committee on Carbon Market Activation Plan in the bid to create a blueprint to drive an efficient sustainable carbon market ecosystem. This is in fulfilment of the promise made by President Bola Tinubu to reduce Nigeria’s carbon footprint as well as plans by the Federal Government, in collaboration and support of …