Month: June 2023
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Democracy Day: Full Text of President Tinubu’s Speech
TEXT OF DEMOCRACY DAY NATIONAL BROADCAST BY HIS EXCELLENCY PRESIDENT BOLA AHMED Tinubu, GCFR ON JUNE 12, 2023 Fellow Nigerians,
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Democracy Day: 15 Things Tinubu Has Done Since Moving Into Aso Rock
Channels TV President Bola Tinubu was not handed Nigeria at its best socio-economic state, and he knows this fact; perhaps, this has informed some of the steps he has taken within the last 13 days since he officially took the reins. Uneasy they say lies the head that wears the crown, and indeed the first…
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Tinubu Advisory Council Proposes Oil Sector Reform, Sets Target For First 100 Days in Office
The Cable The policy advisory council of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has recommended that the federal government becomes a minority shareholder in the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited before May 2027. The report, dated May 2023, was submitted by the energy and natural resources subcommittees of the council. It forecasted that the federal government…
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SERAP Drags Tinubu To Court
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over “the failure to probe the allegations that $2.1 billion and N3.1 trillion public funds of oil revenues and budgeted as fuel subsidy payments are missing and unaccounted for between 2016 and 2019.” In a statement on Sunday, SERAP…
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DSS Seeks Order to Extend Emefiele’s Detention, Lines up Interrogators
Punch Newspaper The Department of State Services is likely to approach the court on Tuesday to obtain an order to keep the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, in its custody for as long as his interrogation will last. A source in the DSS confided in one of our correspondents that…
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Just in: Kyari not sacked as NNPCL boss, say sources
Vanguard News Contrary to reports making the rounds, the Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari has not been removed from office. The aforesaid report speculating Kyari’s removal by President Bola Tinubu was published in certain media quarters (not Vanguard) on Saturday. However, in a telephone interview with Vanguard, authoritative…
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Presidential Tribunal Dismisses Obi, LP’s Questions
The Presidential Election Petitions Court has refused the 12 interrogatories by Peter Obi and the Labour Party (LP) to INEC technology experts used in the February 25 presidential election. The five-member panel of justices led by Justice Haruna Tsammani on Saturday held that the application was made out of time. The panel noted that in…
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Moment Security Agents Flown Emefiele From Lagos To Abuja (Video)
A video has surfaced on the internet showing moment the just suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele was flown from Lagos to Abuja. The video showed a white hilux conveying some security agents and Emefiele, few seconds after the vehicle got to its destination, Emefiele was spotted being ushered into…
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DSS Reacts To Arrest of Emefiele
The Department of State Services(DSS), has reacted to the rumour making the rounds that the just suspended former governor of the Central Bank(CBN), Godwin Emefiele is in its custody. DSS public Relations Officer Peter Afunaya, made this known on the service media platform. Afunaya response is coming following reports that Emefiele who was suspended by…
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DSS, Precidency Sources Confirm Emefiele Presence in Custody
Daily Trust President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has suspended Godwin Emefiele, the embattled governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). It was learnt that officials of State Security Service (SSS) have also arrested him. Credible sources around the presidency and the intelligence community said Emefiele was suspended because of many reasons, among them his recent…