The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has named its command and control centre after President Bola Tinubu. The Controller General of the NIS, Mrs. Kemi Nanna Nandap, announced this at the inauguration of the Centre in Abuja on Tuesday by the…
Tinubu approves 300% pay rise for judicial officers
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has signed a bill for an act to prescribe the salaries, allowances and fringe benefits of judicial office holders in Nigeria and for related matters into law. This was disclosed in a statement on Tuesday in…
Coups all over the continent — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Coups and earthquakes! Foreign journalists from America and Britain who covered Africa back in the day never tired on writing headline stories on coups and earthquakes in Africa. There is no point to be gained denying the hard news that…
NNPC Ltd delivers Port Harcourt Refinery
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Ltd. has fulfilled its pledge of achieving the mechanical completion of rehabilitation work on Area 5 Plant of the Port Harcourt Refining Company (PHRC). Rehabilitation work has been ongoing at the Refinery for over…
Tinubu’s Supreme Court victory and the calming of political storm in Nigeria — Magnus Onyibe
Given the momentum that had built up in the lead-up to the Supreme Court’s ruling on whether President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s mandate as the authentic winner of the February 25 elections was pyrrhic or confirmed, it ultimately turned out to…
Student Loan Scheme to take off January 2024 – Tinubu
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has directed that the new Student Loan Scheme he signed into law earlier in the year should take off fully in Nigeria by January 2024. Tinubu said this in Abuja on Monday at the 29th Nigeria…
Tinubu snubs Niger coup leader’s overtures for direct talks
Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has rejected overtures by the head of the military junta Niger Republic, General Abdourahamane Tchiani, to have direct access and discussion with him. This came amidst renewed efforts to resolve the crisis in the West…
Tinubu approves temporary allowance for junior federal workers
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has announced that there will be temporary increment in salary for federal government workers. Tinubu said this in his speech in commemoration of the 63rd independence anniversary of Nigeria on Sunday, October 1, 2023. According to…
Real Madrid star David Alaba visits President Tinubu in France
Real Madrid defender David Alaba met with Nigeria’s president Bola Ahmed Tinubu in France on Friday. Alaba was among the important personalities who attended the diaspora engagement president Tinubu had with Nigerians living in France at the end of the…
ASUU strike, future of education and student loan (an encore) — Magnus Onyibe
This article which was first published in my column on 11th October last year and subsequently on several traditional and online platforms merits being repeated because President Bola Ahmed Tinubu through his signing into law Student Loan (Access to Higher…