President Bola Tinubu has said that federal and sub-national governments have the mutual responsibility of ensuring the country’s peace and stability. During a meeting with the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) at his residence in Lagos on Tuesday, the President reiterated his condemnation of the latest killings in Plateau State. Addressing the governors, the President issued a stern directive to security …

The Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) has said there is no crisis at the forum’s secretariat as alleged by its former director of Media and Public Affairs, Abdulrazaque Bello Barkindo, and published in a national daily. The NGF legal director, Chijioke Chuku who disclosed this in a statement also dismissed allegations of corruption at the forum’s secretariat by Barkindo. Barkindo had …

The Nigerian Governors Forum has urged its members to allocate 15 per cent of state budgets to education. During a briefing organised by the Federal Ministry of Education in Abuja on Wednesday, the Chairman of the Forum, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State, who was represented by the Vice Chairman, Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, said there was a …

President Bola Tinubu has congratulated Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq on his emergence as the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF). He also hailed Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma, who was unanimously voted as the Chairman of the Progressives Governors’ Forum. In a statement from the State House on Thursday, the President said: “I congratulate the Governor of Kwara …