The Federal Government has announced plans to formalize one million businesses across Nigeria at a discounted rate. Vice President Kashim Shettima disclosed this on Tuesday, 9 January, 2024, when he launched the Expanded National MSME Clinic in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, marking the first stop on a nationwide journey to empower small and medium-sized businesses. MSME Clinic, the first of its kind under the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration, aims to empower micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) by breaking down barriers and providing crucial resources. Benue’s pioneership of the MSME Clinic sets the stage for a nationwide rollout…
Author: Khadijah Olowode
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, has ratified the agreement between the government of Nigeria and Saudi Arabia for the 2024 Hajj operations; the signing took place Sunday, 7 January, 2024, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Tuggar, in a bilateral meeting with the Saudi Arabian Minister of Hajj and Umrah Dr Taofiq bin Fawzan AlRabiah, also affirmed that the 2024 Hajj Operations will be guided by a new culture of precision that will ensure that pre-Hajj, Hajj and Umrah activities are carried out on time. The bilateral meeting also touched on the areas of airlifting pilgrims, Nigerian government-endorsed…
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede has assured that there will be no hiding place for the corrupt in Nigeria, given the political will of President Bola Tinubu to frontally tackle economic and financial crimes and other acts of corruption. He gave the assurance in Abuja on Tuesday, 9 January, 2024 when the Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu, SAN, paid him a courtesy visit at the corporate headquarters of the Commission. According to him, President Tinubu is offering the right atmosphere for anti-graft…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu should appoint a Special Investigator to lead a Commission of Inquiry into the causes, as well as expose the sponsors of the religious insurgency that has bedeviled Nigeria since 2009, a coalition of Christians under the aegis of National Christian Elders Forum (NCEF), has demanded. The elder statesmen also picked holes in the description by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Saad Abubakar that the genocidal attacks in Bokkos, Mangu, and Barkin Ladi Local Government Areas of Plateau State were “clashes.” The Chairman of NCEF, Dr. Samuel Danjuma Gani, raised the issues in a statement in Abuja,…
By Abdulaziz Abdulaziz “I took an oath to serve this country and give my best at all times. Like I said in the past, no excuse for poor performance from any of my appointees will be good enough…Within the first quarter of this new year, Ministers and Heads of Agencies with a future in this administration that I lead will continue to show themselves.” – President Bola Tinubu, 2024 New Year broadcast The mother hen, goes a Hausa proverb, stomps on its chicks not because it doesn’t love them. It is a gesture aimed at passing life lessons and…
In alignment with the Federal Government’s agenda for food security and economic stability, major sugar refineries across the nation have pledged to not increase sugar prices during the Ramadan. This decision resonates strongly with the objectives of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s 8-Point Agenda and was highlighted during the recent tour by Dr. Doris Uzoka-Anite, Minister of the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Investment. During her visits to leading sugar producers such as Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc, BUA Sugar Refinery Ltd, Flour Mills Limited, Bestaf Ltd, Golden Sugar Company, and the Coca Cola Hellenic Bottling Company (CHBN), Dr. Uzoka-Anite observed…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has condoled with the immediate family, entire Muslim community in Lagos State and the state government over the death of Sheikh Abdul-Hafeez Abou. The Baba Adini of Lagos died on Tuesday, 9 January, 2024, at the age of 101. Until his death, Sheikh Abou was the Baba Adini and Chairman of the Executive Council of Lagos Central Mosque. A statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, stated that the President received the news with heavy heart. The President celebrated the inspiring legacy of service, duty, and sacrifice of Baba,…
The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. Felix Omatsola Ogbe on Tuesday, 9 January, 2024 visited the Chief Executive of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), Engr. Gbenga Komolafe and the Commissioner for Insurance of the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM), Mr. Sunday Olorundare Thomas at their respective offices in Abuja. The visit by the new NCDMB boss was aimed at familiarizing himself with chief executives of institutions that are represented on the NCDMB’s Governing Council as well as exploring areas of collaboration. In his remarks, the Executive Secretary conveyed the willingness of the…
Kwara State Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq (CON) on Tuesday, 9 January, 2024, pledged continuous support for the judicial arm of government, including in the area of infrastructural development and welfare. The Governor said rehabilitation of courtrooms, among other efforts of the administration, will continue within budgetary limits in the new year. “Our administration will continue to partner with the judiciary to sustain the rule of law, public order, and safety. Along with some other supports that ease the dispensation of justice, I assure you that infrastructural development in the justice sector, including rehabilitation of courtrooms that we have started, will continue…
Oyo State Governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, has expressed his condolences to the Chief Imam of Ibadanland, Sheik Abdulganiyu Agbotomokekere and the Muslim Ummah in the state over the death of the Grand Mufti of Ibadanland, Sheikh Abdulfatai Alaga. The Governor, who equally sympathised with the immediate family of the Grand Mufti, prayed to Allah to grant repose to the soul of the late Alfa Agba, as he was known in Ibadanland. Describing the deceased Sheik Alaga as a great cleric, who worked hard with others to foster the religious harmony being enjoyed in the state, Governor Makinde said his death has…