President Bola Ahmed Tinubu congratulates renowned legal luminary, elder statesman, and distinguished public servant, Dr Muhammed Alimi AbdulRazaq, the Mutawalin of Ilorin, on his 70th birthday, describing him as an accomplished legal practitioner, respected community leader, and patriotic Nigerian whose exemplary career has inspired many within and beyond the legal profession. President Tinubu notes AbdulRazaq’s […]

The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has said the proposed business-to-business model for future hajj operations recommended by the Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umrah will be implemented in phases. Chairman of the Commission, Amb. Ismail Abba Yussuf, made the disclosure while fielding questions from State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He […]

By Fredrick Nwabufo A principal ingredient of participatory governance is the robustness of views. No government is a monolith of knowledge; hence, a plurality of opinions, thoughts, and criticisms must be welcomed with avid and dispassionate interest. In fact, democracy by its very conception is a theorem of divergence—divergence of thoughts, beliefs, pursuits, persuasions, and […]

The Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, Thursday, led mourners at the Janai’za (funeral rites) of the former Nigerian Minister of Finance and Sardauna of Sokoto, Alhaji Abubakar Alhaji. The elder statesman, who passed on earlier in the day at the age of 88 after a brief illness, had served as Minister of National Planning, and […]

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has expressed profound sadness over the passing of elder statesman, former Minister of Finance, and distinguished diplomat, Alhaji Abubakar Alhaji, who died at the age of 85. Alhaji Abubakar Alhaji was an iconic figure in Nigeria’s public administration, whose illustrious career spanned decades of dedicated service as a permanent secretary, federal […]

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has stated that the creation of four additional divisions of the Nigerian Army to complement the existing eight was to ensure that the military responded swiftly to acts of insecurity wherever they happened. He added that the 12 divisions are now better motivated to tackle the insecurity in the country that […]

President Bola Tinubu congratulates High Chief Gilbert Tamisan Grant, the Agura-Otiri of Warri, on his 80th birthday, July 31. Chief Grant is one of Nigeria’s foremost indigenous petroleum engineers. He began his career as a Petroleum/Reservoir Engineer with Gulf Oil Company Nigeria Limited (now Chevron Nigeria Limited) in 1970. He later joined the Nigerian National […]