President Muhammadu Buhari has directed that all members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) running for elective offices to submit their letters of resignation on or before Monday the 16th of May, 2022. The Minister of information and Culture, Lai Mohamed, disclosed this on Wednesday during the Federal Executive Council meeting. He said that the…
The panel that recommended the pardons of two ex-governors, Joshua Dariye and Jolly Nyame, also recommended the pardons of 24 other convicts who were still serving their jail terms for various offences. Premium Times obtained the full list of the convicts and ex-convicts pardoned by the Muhammadu Buhari government. In the list, another 86 people…
The Senate, on Tuesday, amended the Electoral Act, 2022, to allow ‘statutory delegates’ – all those elected – to participate and vote in the conventions, congresses or meetings of political parties. This followed the expeditious consideration of a bill during plenary which scaled first, second and third readings, respectively, and was passed during plenary by…
The Federal Government yesterday announced that it would confer a posthumous award on Late Dr Ameyo Adadevoh, who died from the Ebola virus while quarantining a patient, Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian in a medical facility in Lagos. Also to be honoured is late Babatunde Lawal who until his death, was the Permanent Secretary of Cabinet…
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has rejected the N100 million All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Expression of Interest and Nomination forms bought for him to contest the 2023 presidential election by nomadic Fulani pastoralists and Almajiri communities. Jonathan’s Media Adviser, Mr Ikechukwu Eze, in a statement on Monday, said it was an insult for the community…
President Muhammadu Buhari has charged the World Bank and African Development Bank (AfDB) to activate the $19 billion pledge, meant for land restoration, tree planting, development of climate resilience infrastructure and investments in small- and medium-sized farms. The president, while calling on development partners to support the One Planet Summit initiative, also underscored the importance…
Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan may be seeking a return to office in 2023 after nomination forms to contest the APC presidential primaries were bought on his behalf by a Northern group. This means that Jonathan may have joined the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) that defeated him in 2015 after five years in power….
Senate President Ahmad Lawan has declared his intention to contest the 2023 presidential election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Lawan made the declaration on Monday in Abuja while receiving the N100 million APC nomination and expression of interest forms presented to him by a political group, National Stability Project, led by…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has extended the ongoing strike by twelve weeks, the president of the union, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke said on Monday. In a statement he issued after the varsity teachers’ meeting held at the University of Abuja, the ASUU president said the decision was to give the government enough time…
“The Nigeria of our dreams cannot be attained without an aggressive reawakening of our public consciousness; without a sense of collective values rooted in the very principles our faiths espouse, principles of honesty and hard work, of mutual respect, cooperation, tolerance, and fidelity to the common good.” Despite the challenges, the VP noted that there…