Press Releases

Ø AISHA BUHARI ELECTED PRESIDENT OF AFLPM President Muhammadu Buhari Monday in Abuja pledged support to the resolutions of the African First Ladies Peace Mission (AFLPM) aimed at promoting peace and development in the continent. Addressing the opening ceremony of the 9th General Assembly of the   AFLPM, the President also urged African Leaders and other […]

*FG’s policies, providence helped start-up Unicorns emerge in Nigeria, VP adds *Highlights impact of ESP, public-private initiatives in tackling COVID-19 The recently approved 2021 – 2025 National Development Plan will usher a new season of accelerate growth in Nigeria because of its focus on value addition as major pivot to boost productivity in all sectors, […]

Higher institutions become globally recognized because of their active engagements in research according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN.  Prof Osinbajo stated this today when he received a delegation from the University of Lagos, (UNILAG) Alumni Association, led by the National President, Dr John Momoh.  He said, “we should focus on how to endow research […]

President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Abuja directed Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to study a Report on how best to ensure effective policy design and implementation with a view to implementing some of its recommendations.  The report entitled, “Getting Things Done: Strategies for Policy and Programme Implementation in Nigeria,” was presented to the President by the Senior […]

*VP urges Nigerian businesses to step-up product quality for Africa trade In an increasingly integrated African continent, all hands must be on deck to ensure that limitations to product quality and technical barriers to trade are removed, while improving the market acceptability of made-in-Nigeria products, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN. Prof. Osinbajo stated […]

The Nigerian economy is set for effective growth and job creation with a renewed focus on digital economy, significant value addition in agriculture, other sectors including oil & gas, while boosting productivity generally. There would also be specific attention to review trade policies that are rather too broad and expand the supply sides in revenues, […]

*VP represents President at All Nigeria Judges’ Conference  *Deterrent costs against dilatory tactics advocated, Courts commended for effective response to pandemic  *Osinbajo is a “very solid part and parcel of us” – CJN  The Federal Government will continue to support efforts and reforms that safeguard the integrity of the Nigerian Judiciary, its independence from all […]

President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday afternoon arrived in Paris, French capital, for a one-day official visit as guest of President Emmanuel Macron at Palais de l’Élysée, and will afterwards attend the three-day Paris Peace Forum (PPF), November 11-13, 2021. The President’s plane touched down at Le Bourget Airport at 2.45pm. During the official visit on Wednesday, […]

*We insist UN, EU, others support impositions of sanctions, says Osinbajo in Accra  An ECOWAS Extraordinary Summit of the Authority of Heads of State and Government held yesterday in Accra, Ghana to review the political situations in Guinea and Mali, has decided to maintain the sanctions imposed on Guinea and impose similar ones against the […]

President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Glasgow, Scotland pledged that Nigeria would cut its emissions to net zero by 2060.  Delivering his national statement at COP26 Leaders’ Summit, the President said that attaining national and global climate change goals will require adequate and sustained technical and financial support to developing countries.  He said greater effort should be […]

Nigeria ready to assume leadership of regional organisation   Africa’s ambition of restoring over 100million hectares of degraded landscape for productive agriculture is achievable, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Monday in Glasgow, Scotland. The President expressed the optimism at the Climate Change Summit, COP 26, side event on the Great Green Wall (GGW), co-hosted by […]

*Gas should be a transition fuel, says Tony Blair *VP explains Nigeria’s plan *Joins Tanzanian President, Former UK Prime Minister, UN ECA official to discuss Africa and Climate Change A few days to the commencement of the COP26 holding in the United Kingdom, Nigeria’s expectation is that more developed countries will change the direction of […]