The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), yesterday, urged President Bola Tinubu to set up a presidential panel of enquiry to probe the alleged missing and unaccounted $15 billion of oil revenues, and N200 billion budgeted to repair the refineries between 2020 and 2021, as documented by the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI). SERAP also urged the President to …

In honour of President Bola Tinubu’s determined global push to aggressively attract foreign direct investment into Nigeria, the world’s second largest stock exchange, the National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System (NASDAQ), on Wednesday in the world’s financial capital, invited President Tinubu to ring the closing bell, making him the first African President to ever receive the honour. The …

President Bola Tinubu said on Wednesday in New York that African nations would no longer accept a situation in which human rights advocacy is used by wealthy and powerful nations to stop developing economies from dealing decisively with malign actors who illicitly siphon and smuggle out the continent’s vast mineral resources while smuggling in western-made weapons, which enrich the wealthiest …

Following the G-20 summit held in India, I have been amused by the debate about whether or not Nigeria should be more than a guest again at the next G-20 meeting in Rio, Brazil. If South Africa is a member, why not Nigeria? How do you offer Africa’s largest economy only a complimentary ticket every time to such an important …

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has joined other members of his family and friends to celebrate his wife and First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, who turns 63 today. In a congratulatory message he personally authored yesterday, the President described his wife of 36 years as a friend and partner, who has stuck with him over the years to face the various …

A United States District Court in the Northern District of Illinois has granted the request made by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, for the release of President Bola Tinubu’s academic records by Chicago State University. In a ruling delivered by US Magistrate, Judge Jeffrey Gilbert on Tuesday, the court ordered Chicago State Varsity to provide …

President Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday in New York City, addressed world leaders at the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), during which he made a firm and compelling declaration that the time is now for UN member states to show, with their actions, that they mean what they say concerning the crackdown on terror financing, economic sabotage, and illicit mineral …

President Bola Tinubu has said that Nigeria would no longer settle for crumbs and leftovers on the investment agenda of the world’s most prolific energy conglomerates. Playing host to a delegation of global leadership of an oil and gas transnational giant, ExxonMobil, on Monday in New York, United States, the President said: “Nigeria has never been more ready for business …

The National President of the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines, and Agriculture (NACCIMA), Barrister Dele Kelvin Oye has commended President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Indorama Eleme Petrochemicals Limited and the NNPC Limited on the successful signing of a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) worth US$ 7 billion to promote gas utilisation in Nigeria. In a statement, Oye said …

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 …