Orire Agbaje, a 400-level Economics student of the University of Ibadan, UI, has been appointed as a member of the presidential committee on fiscal policy and tax reforms. The committee was inaugurated at the State House, Abuja on Tuesday by President Bola Tinubu. The president had approved the establishment of the committee last month and appointed Taiwo Oyedele, a tax and fiscal policy expert, as its chairman. The committee is responsible for various aspects of...

The move by Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to put an end to the sit-at-home observed in the South East every Monday has met with opposition from his supposed disciple, Simon Ekpa. Kanu, 13 days ago, via a handwritten letter ordered the cancellation of all pending or future sit-at-home in the five eastern states of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo. In the letter, Kanu unequivocally stated that...

President Bola Tinubu has added Festus Keyamo to his list of minister-nominees to be screened by the Senate. The President also withdrew the nomination of Maryam Shetty, naming Mairiga Mahmud as her replacement. The president communicated the new development to the Senate via a letter at the resumed screening of the minister-nominees on Friday. Godswill Akpabio, the Senate President, read the letter from the President during plenary. Keyamo was the Minister of State for Labour...

Former Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje has emerged as the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Ganduje was elected the national chairman of the ruling party at the 12th meeting of the National Executive Committee, NEC, of the party on Thursday. Senator Ajibola Basiru was also elected as the party’s national secretary. The meeting took place at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja. The former national chairman, Abdullahi Adamu and ex-national secretary, Iyiola...

President Bola Tinubu has assured Nigerians that his administration’s policies are in the best interest of every Nigerian. “Our policies are for the people, not to punish the people,” the President said at the 12th National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting of the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Thursday in Abuja. Since he assumed office on May 29, President Tinubu has taken several policies that have been dubbed ‘anti-masses’ and heavily criticised by many Nigerians. Some...