President Bola Tinubu says Nigeria remains committed to a balanced approach to energy transition and still requires substantial investments in the oil and gas sector to meet the energy demands and economic needs of its population. Speaking at a meeting on Monday in Abuja with the Group Chief Executive of Standard Chartered Bank, Mr. Bill Winters, the President called for …

A former Secretary to Lagos State Government, Mr. Olatunji Bello has been appointed Chief Executive Officer/Executive Vice-Chairman of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC), pending confirmation by the Senate. Upon confirmation, Bello, who was also Lagos State Commissioner for the Environment, will replace Mr. Babatunde Irukera. The Senior Advocate of Nigeria was relieved of his appointment in January. …

The Organised Labour has urged President Bola Tinubu to consider consulting and reaching an agreement with its leadership before transmitting the proposed bill on the new minimum wage to the National Assembly. This was as the union admitted that their much-anticipated meeting of the National Executive Committee, which will accommodate about 300 Labour leaders, is being stalled by President Tinubu’s …

President Bola Tinubu says it is imperative for Nigerians to have a change of value system if the nation is to make progress. According to his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Chief Ajuri Ngelale, the President spoke in Lagos when he received a delegation from the National Assembly who came to felicitate with him on the occasion of Eid-el-Kabir …

There is still a long way to go before beating the chests that the course has been steadied. And Tinubu knows it, despite the claims in his Democracy Day speech. The attempts by President Bola Tinubu to whitewash Nigeria’s democracy in his address on Wednesday, 12 June 2024, were vigorous and obvious. It was such that an outsider could fall …

President Bola Tinubu’s Democracy Day broadcast of 12 June 2024, did Ibadan incalculable dishonour. The speech celebrated the heroes of Nigeria’s 25 years of civil rule with a very scant mention of Ibadan’s fight against the tyranny of military rule. Was it an institutional slight on the city of Ogunmola, the great warrior? The angry spirits of Ibadan dead must …

President Bola Tinubu, this morning, said that he would soon send an executive bill to the National Assembly in line with the negotiated and agreed national minimum wage. Although he did not name the figure, the Federal Government and organised private sector had settled for N62,ooo following protracted negotiations, by organised labour said it stand by its revised figure of …

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has commended the Singaporean business conglomerate, the Tolaram, for believing in Nigeria and having absolute faith in her economy. Tolaram, which partnered Nigeria to build the Lekki Free Trade Zone and the country’s first deep sea port, has acquired Diageo’s 58.02 per cent shareholding in Guinness Nigeria Plc. According to an announcement at the Nigerian Exchange …

Ex-aides of the former Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun have called on President Bola Tinubu to persuade the incumbent governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun to pay their severance gratuity denied them since 2019 when the Amosun administration exited office. They lamented that, in spite of the humongous amount accruing to Ogun State under the Tinubu-led administration and the charge of …

Joseph Odidi Itotoh, the legendary educationist who raised my generation at the famous Immaculate Conception College (ICC), Benin City, was notable as a thoroughbred teacher, an uncompromising disciplinarian and a school administrator par excellence. He received us, enthusiastic little boys, into the luminous premises of the institution in September 1975. He would subsequently guide us with paternal commitment through five …