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Vice President KASHIM SHETTIMAyesterday inaugurated the Steering Committee on Clean Nigeria Campaign at the Presidential Villa Abuja, reiterating the commitment of the administration of President BOLA TINUBU to end open defecation by 2025. SHETTIMA said ending open defecation can be achieved by mobilizing strategic stakeholders and leveraging technology as well as deploying innovative and sustainable solutions to boost the nation’s sanitation landscape. The Vice President who highlighted the significance of hygiene, health, and its impact on development and wealth, urged the committee to align with broader […]

The lead counsel of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB, NNAMDI KANU,ALOY EJIMAKOR has disproved reports that his client agreed to abide by any conditions for his release, maintaining that KANU will abide only by the negotiated terms of his release. EJIMAKOR issued the clarification after leading the legal team to a routine meeting with KANU in the custody of the Department of State Services DSS, in Abuja. Senator representing Abia South ENYINNAYA ABARIBE had claimed that Kanu agreed to comply with any conditions set by President BOLA TINUBU-led Federal government for his […]

President BOLA TINUBU has agreed to the appointment of UZOMA NWAGBA as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Consumer Credit CorporationCREDICORP to further expedite the process of expanding consumer credit access to Nigerians. Other key appointments made yesterday include ADEREMI ABDUL who is to serve as Board Chairman independent non-executive director; AISHA ABDULLAHI, Executive Director of credit, Risk, and Portfolio; and OLANIKE KOLAWOLE, Executive Director of operations. The appointees include ARMSTRONG UME TAKANG as MOFI nominee; PETER IWEGBU as NIMC nominee, MOHAMMED NASIRU ABBAS as FMITI nominee,MARVIN NADAH as FCCPC nominee, and FMF representative, all of whom are non-executive directors. TINUBU expects the new members of the board to […]

President BOLA TINUBU has approved the appointment of board members for Family Homes Funds Limited FHFL. The media aid to the President, AJURI NGELALE in a short statement yesterday listed the new appointees as DEMOLA ADEBISE as Board Chairman, ABDUL MUTTALAB as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director,ABDULLAHI MUSA as Executive Director, Finance, and EMEKA INEGBU as Executive Director, Operations. Others appointed to the board as non-executive directors include SAM OKAGBUE, MUSA AHMED, ENIANG NKANG, BILKISU USMAN, and representatives of the Ministry of Finance Incorporated and Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority NSIA. The President expects the new members of the board to […]

The Director General of the National Space Research and Development Agency, NASRDA, MATHEW ADEPOJU has announced that they are sending Nigeria’s first citizen into space. ADEPOJU at a press conference in Abuja yesterday said that the government had signed a Memorandum of Understanding MoU, with the Space Exploration and Research Agency SERA, to facilitate the ambitious venture. He stated that the collaboration, which is coming to the country, marks a significant milestone in Nigeria’s 25th anniversary of the Space Exploration journey and opens […]