President Bola Tinubu on Friday tasked the United Nations to be more practical in supporting Nigeria in the fight against terrorism. In an audience with the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Office on Counter-Terrorism, Mr. Vladimir Voronkov, at the State House on Thursday, the President noted that terrorism had consistently reversed the gains on development and increased instability in families …

President Bola Tinubu will address the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday, 19 September. President Tinubu, in his first outing to the Assembly, will address world leaders in the evening. The president would be the fifth African leader to speak on day one of the session, according to …

Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress in the 2023 polls, Mr.Dumebi Kachikwu has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to end crude oil theft in the country and prosecute all those involved. Addressing newsmen in Abuja, Kachikwu lamented over the growing rate of oil theft in the country, saying that Tantita should remain contractors of the pipeline surveillance since their …

President Bola Tinubu has declared that Nigeria would not sustain failed economic theory that sees to the wastage of 90% of its scarce revenue in the servicing of external debts in the midst of many development challenges facing the country. The President made the statement on Sunday in Abuja while declaring open the Annual Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association …

President Bola Tinubu on Saturday advised the United States Presidential Envoy and Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Ambassador Molly Phee to ensure that country’s policy is intentionally collaborative with independent African democracies at a time when they are under assault by anti-democratic forces within and outside of the continent. Receiving the envoy at the State House, Abuja, President …

It was not meant to be this way. But like a good number of things Nigerian, the story is hardly complete without a twist in the tale. And so it has been for at least three years now with the story of the gas car that was supposed to lessen, if not end, Nigerians’ petrol misery. Sometime in 2020, state …

President Bola Tinubu on Thursday  said he was managing a serious situation and that he was the one holding back the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), heads of State and government. President Tinubu, who is the Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, also implored a delegation of Islamic scholars (Ulamas), who were previously …

President Bola Tinubu on Thursday directed that issues affecting Nigeria’s relations with the Emirates Airline, and issuance of visas to Nigerians by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) should be “immediately’’ resolved, emphasising that he stands prepared to “personally’’ intervene. President Tinubu stated this while receiving Letters of Credence from three envoys at the State House. They are: Ambassador of the …

On Monday, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu welcomed 45 out of 48 Ministers, with just three more to complete his bloated cabinet. Hours before their inauguration, some Ministers-designate swapped offices. Should we call that cabinet reshuffle or what? Or is it another sign of the ill-preparedness of the president to govern, as some critics have suggested? While it is damn too …

“Your assignment begins today”! With those words, President Bola Tinubu charged the 45 ministers sworn-in at the State House Conference Centre, Abuja on Monday to work for Nigeria in the discharge of their responsibilities. He said they should see themselves as Ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and not those of sections of the country. President Tinubu urged the …