President Bola Tinubu has congratulated Justice Stella Anukam on her re-election as a Judge of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights for another term of six years. Justice Anukam was re-elected at the African Union Mid-Year Coordination Meeting Executive Council in Accra, Ghana, on Friday. A Nigerian, Justice Anukam obtained her law degree ...

President Bola Tinubu has committed to addressing food insecurity and reducing the cost of living for Nigerians. To combat the rising food prices, the government announced a temporary suspension of tariffs on imported grains and other essential food items. This announcement was made during the public presentation of Olusegun Osoba’s book, “My Life in the ...

Aloy Ejimakor, Special Counsel to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has criticized President Bola Tinubu’s recent creation of a Ministry of Livestock Development. The President announced this new ministry in Abuja on Tuesday as part of efforts to resolve the ongoing farmer-herder conflicts and enhance the livestock and dairy industries. ...

President Bola Tinubu’s administration has expanded the number of ministries to 29 with the creation of the new Ministry of Livestock Development. This move could increase the number of ministers to 50. On Tuesday, President Tinubu announced the establishment of the Ministry of Livestock Development during the inauguration of the Presidential Committee on Livestock Reforms ...

  Former Governor of Lagos State and leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has extended his warm wishes to retired Supreme Court Judge, Justice Mary Odili, on the occasion of her 72nd birthday. In a press release issued by his Media Adviser, Ajuri Ngelale, President Tinubu commended Justice Odili not only for ...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has temporarily banned all public-funded international trips for all federal government officials at all levels for an initial period of three months, starting from April 1, 2024. This was made known in a memo signed by the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila and addressed to the Secretary to ...

The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, has called on President Bola Tinubu to save Nigeria and himself from what he described as “protracted embarrassment and undue anxiety” over the controversy surrounding his certificate. He was speaking in light of what has transpired recently where a US court ...

When in 1992, James Carville, Bill Clinton’s campaign strategist uttered the quip on television: “It’s the economy, stupid”, little could he have realized that he had pronounced a phrase that would reverberate beyond the United States and become a benchmark in other presidential campaign processes. Carville spoke in the context of the 1992 US Presidential ...

President Bola Tinubu may hold a second meeting with leaders of the Economic Community of West African States in the coming days as the one-week ultimatum issued to the military junta in Niger Republic ended Sunday midnight. A presidential aide said Tinubu, who is the  Chairman of ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, ...

The Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja, yesterday reserved its judgement on petitions seeking to remove President Bola Tinubu from office. The Justice Haruna Tsammani-led five-member panel of the court, okayed the cases for judgement, after all the parties adopted their final briefs of argument. The two petitions, marked CA/PEPC/05/2023 and CA/PEPC/03/2023, were ...

The Supreme Court will on May 26, decide whether it will nullify the victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate in the February 25 election, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, over alleged double nomination. The apex court on Monday, adjourned to the above date to deliver its judgment in the appeal by the ...

The Presidential Election Petition Court sitting in Abuja has adjourned further pre-hearing session on the petition the Labour Party and its candidate, Peter Obi filed to nullify Tinubu’s election victory till Wednesday. The court equally fixed the same date for another petition by the Action Peoples Party, APP, while it adjourned the case of the ...

The Federal Government, on Tuesday, gave the assurance that the transition of power from the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, would be smooth and peaceful. This was as the government said the refurbishment of offices for the President and Vice-President elect had been completed. Addressing journalists in Abuja on ...

The Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja, on Friday, ordered that the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, should be served with copies of petitions seeking to nullify his election, through substituted means. A three-man panel of the court led by Justice Joseph Ikyegh, directed that the petitions should be served on Tinubu, through his political ...

Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been declared winner of arguably Nigeria’s most hotly contested and high-stakes presidential elections. Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, announced the former Lagos Governor’s victory, minutes past 4am on Wednesday at the National Collation Centre in Abuja, a hall packed ...