Vice President Kashim Shettima, on Wednesday, identified education and skills development as a panacea for addressing poverty and hunger in the country. Shettima stated this at a meeting with a delegation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The delegation was led to the State House by the President of its Global Growth & Opportunity …

Vice President Kashim Shettima will depart Abuja today for Beijing, China, to represent President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the upcoming third Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) forum scheduled to hold from Monday to Wednesday. According to a statement on Sunday by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Communications, Mr. Stanley Nkwocha, the Vice President will be joining …

President Bola Tinubu has appointed former General Manager/Daily Editor of LEADERSHIP newspapers, Mr. Kingsley Stanley Nkwocha, as Senior Special Assistant on Media and Communications in the Office of the Vice President. The President also made seven other appointments in the Vice President’s office, including Muhammad Bulama, now Senior Special Assistant to the President on Special Duties in the Office of the …

Nigeria’s delegation to the G77+China Summit, led by Vice President Kashim Shettima, on Saturday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Republic of Cuba. In a statement, the Director of Information in the Office of the Vice President, Mr. Olusola Abiola said the Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Chief Uche Nnaji signed the MoU for the Government of …

Increasing domestic health financing, industrialisation and improved health outcomes, top the agenda of President Ahmed Bola Tinubu’s administration, Vice President Kashim Shettima has said. He stated this yesterday when a delegation from the Global Health Partners – the Global Fund, US President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) and the US President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) visited him at the Presidential …

Vice President Kashim Shettima has announced approval by President Bola Tinubu of the building of 1,000 houses in Sokoto, Kebbi, Katsina, Zamfara, Kaduna, Niger and Benue states as part of a broad plan by the federal government to address the conflict in the North. The Vice President, who represented President Tinubu, disclosed this on Friday evening in Maiduguri, Borno State …

Former Senate President, Dr. Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan, on Thursday said the victory of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Vice President Kashim Shettima at the Presidential Election Petitions Court (PEPC) has restored the confidence of Nigerians in the nation’s electoral processes and the judiciary. Reacting to the outcome of the three petitions filed against the results of the 2023 presidential …

Vice President Kashim Shettima has declared that the federal government was passionate about empowering Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, MSMEs, for the development of the nation’s economy. He stated this in an interview with journalists during his tour of exhibition stands at the BRICS Trade Fair in Johannesburg, South Africa, yesterday. According to him, “it is a known fact that …

Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima has lauded Google’s N1.2 billion grant for President Bola Tinubu administration’s 1 million jobs initiative. Receiving some executives of Google at the Presidential Villa on Tuesday, the Vice President said the announcement of a grant of N1.2 billion to support the Tinubu administration’s digital jobs initiative was commendable and worthy of emulation by other companies. …

Vice President Kashim Shettima has departed Abuja to represent President Bola Tinubu at two major international Summits in Rome, Italy; and St Petersburg, Russia. Shettima, who left Abuja’s Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport at about 3:00 pm on Sunday, will join other global leaders for the first Stocktaking Moment Summit themed, “Transforming Food Systems for People, Planet and Prosperity,” holding from …