The Federal Executive Council has approved a new youth empowerment programme by the Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government- the N-Power Knowledge Multi-track Youth Empowerment programme. The programme is targeted at engaging unemployed or under-employed graduates who are between the ages of 18-25 years old. The Minister of Budget and Planning, Udoma Udoma, announced this new programme […] More
Many Nigerian artistes and celebrities have totally condemned the unjust killing of many Nigerian youths by the members of the Nigerian police force, especially the much-hated FSARS operatives, and have revived the #ENDSARS movement on social media. Their recent agitation is based on the senseless killing of a South-Africa based Nigerian, Kolade Johnson, who became […] More
President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to the viral story of the killing of Kolade Johnson, a promising young man, in Lagos, by men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), at the Mangoro area of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway. Kolade was in a football viewing centre with other youths, watching a football match, when men of SARS […] More
President Muhammadu Buhari has finally signed the new national minimum wage of N30,000, on Thursday 28th of March, 2019. The President said that the new wage will come into effect from May, in order to mark the International Workers’ Day. More
The launch of a new pension plan, which caters to self-employed Nigerians, took place on Thursday, March 28, 2019, at the State House Conference Centre, Abuja. President Buhari said that the pension program was conceived for the informal sector, in order to extend coverage to everyone else not captured in the existing national pension scheme. […] More
The computation of presidential election results filed before the elections petition tribunal by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, shows that all accredited votes cast in 33 states of the federation were shared between him and President Muhammadu Buhari. Mr Buhari was declared the winner for a second term of […] More
ABUJA – The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, will, today Wednesday, commence hearing on the petition the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, filed to challenge the outcome of the February 23 presidential election. Souce: Vanguard. More
Some details of the petition filed on Monday by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate in the February 23 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to challenge the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari and his All Progressives Congress, emerged on Tuesday. The 141-page petition contained five grounds, one of which resuscitates the allegation that Buhari […] More
Lagos state governor-elect, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, and his deputy, Mr. Obafemi Hamzat, were received by President Muhammadu Buhari, in his office, at the State House, Abuja, this afternoon. Eko o ni baje o. More