The National Population Commission (NPC) has said that it has put everything in place to conduct the 2023 population and housing census. During an interactive session on Wednesday with media executive in Yola, the state capital, on the status of preparations for the census, the Federal Commissioner in Adamawa State, Mr. Clifford Zirra stated that the commission was only waiting …

The Director-General of World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Tuesday said, as the person at the helm of the world body, she alongside her team would do their best to support Nigeria at this difficult time. She stated this while speaking with State House correspondents after meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The WTO …

President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday appointed a 400-level student in the Economics Department of the University of Ibadan, Miss Orire Agbaje, as one of the members of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. President Tinubu inaugurated the committee with about 70 members, one of whom is Agbaje, who is the President of …

President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday in Abuja expressed his resolute commitment to break the vicious cycle of overreliance on borrowing for public spending, and the resulting burden of debt servicing it places on the management of Nigeria’s limited government revenues. Inaugurating the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, chaired by Mr. Taiwo Oyedele, the President charged the committee …

It was the immortal Winston Churchill who once described democracy as the worst form of government except all other governments that have been tried and discarded in the past. The truism is obvious. It accentuates the Lincolnian classical definition of democracy. Despite its flaws , democracy offers the best hope of man in a conflicted world. It gives room for free expression, …

President Bola Tinubu has congratulated African champions D’Tigress after clinching the FIBA Women’s AfroBasket title for the fourth consecutive time. Following their triumph at the just-concluded tournament in Kigali, Rwanda, D’Tigress arrived Abuja on Sunday, where they were given a heroic welcome. The four-time champions arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja via Ethiopian Airlines and were received by …

The nomination of an indigene of Abuja, Hon. Zephaniah Bitrus Jisalo as a minister has been described as a demonstration of commitment by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to national integration. No indigene of Abuja has been minister since Nigeria’s return to democracy 24 years ago. According to a statement from his media office in Abuja, a major stake holder in …

A “wind of change” is blowing across Africa but this time around, it is not the same wind of change that erstwhile British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, spoke about – the positive wind of change blowing away colonial rule and ushering in Independence to the African colonies of Britain. Macmillan made his famous speech to the parliament of apartheid South …

The National Association of Polytechnics Students (NAPS) has given President Bola Ahmed Tinubu seven days to sack the Rector of the Federal Polytechnic, Ekowe in Bayelsa State, Dr. Lukman Adegoke Agbabiaka over what it described as “poor leadership style, corruption and intimidation of students and staff of the school”. During a press conference at the SUG Secretariat of the Kaduna …

President Bola Tinubu said a comprehensive forensic audit of the Central Bank is underway, while a thorough overhaul of the civil service payroll is imminent. During an audience with the President of the World Bank, Mr. Ajay Banga on Friday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the President disclosed: ”A comprehensive forensic audit is on-going at the Central Bank. We are …