Tinubu targets 1m digital jobs as stakeholders set agenda for new administration

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has expressed his administration’s readiness to create one million new digital jobs for the economy. Tinubu, in his inaugural address on Monday, in Abuja, stated this with an assurance that his administration must create meaningful opportunities for the teeming youths. Digital jobs are created through the application of Information and Communications […]

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Memory of slain OAU masters student comes alive as hotelier, 2 others bag death sentence

Finally, justice on Tuesday came the way of the family of a Master’s student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Timothy Adegoke, who was murdered in November 2021. An Osun State High Court passed a death sentence on an Ile-Ife hotelier, Ramon Adedoyin, and two of his staff, Bola Bamigbola writes. The already tense atmosphere […]

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Petrol subsidy removal takes effect as fuel price jumps over N500 per litre

Fuel queues at NNPC filling station in Abule-Egba, Lagos State The National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited Wednesday morning officially increased fuel pump prices to more than N500 in different parts of the country. Our correspondent gathered that the NNPC station pegged fuel price at N537 per litre in Abuja. Nigeria President Bola Tinubu during his […]

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Population Commission, N200b vote and botched 2023 census

Preparations were being concluded for the 2023 Population and Housing Census, when, suddenly, the Federal government announced that it had been postponed. Indefinitely Fidelis Abu, in this analysis, takes a look at the implications of the cancellation. Declaration by the Chairman of the National Population Commission (NPC), Nasir Isa Kwarra, that the Commission had spent […]

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Tinubu, Shettima assume duties in Aso Villa as Nigerians await official appointments

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu (right) being welcomed to office by Vice President Kashim Shettima at the State House Abuja…yesterday. Credit: Philip Ojisua President Bola Ahmed Tinubu officially assumed office at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, yesterday, same as Vice President Kashim Shettima. Tinubu, who arrived at the forecourt of the Presidential Villa, a day after he […]

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Nationwide chaos, pain as stakeholders seek caution on subsidy removal

• Tinubu backpedals as NNPC claims FG owes it N2.8tr • Shettima: Nigerians will soon appreciate FG’s position on subsidy removal • Marketers divided as MOMAN, IPMAN, DAPMAN back move • Nigeria’s 36.9m MSMEs, 96.7% businesses face collapse • TUC, NUPENG reject immediate subsidy removal • NLC: Instead of hope, Tinubu’s inauguration day brought tears, […]

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Court sentences Adedoyin, two staff to death over murder of OAU student

Update The owner of Hilton Hotel, Ile-Ife, Dr Rahmon Adedoyin has been sentenced to death by hanging over the murder of a Masters student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Timothy Adegoke. Adedoyin, who is a traditional chief of Ile-Ife, was sentenced to death with two of his staff, Adeniyi Aderogba the manager of the hotel, and […]

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Tinubu meets Emefiele, Kyari as Shettima defends subsidy removal

The Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, on Tuesday, assured Nigerians that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration means well for the country with better years ahead under their administration. Shettima on his first day of resumption arrived at the Vice President’s wing of the State House in Abuja on Tuesday at 12.39 pm. The president was […]

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Subsidy Removal: Long queues return in Osun, as Govt threatens marketers hoarding fuel

Long queues have returned to filling stations in Osun State following the pronouncement of fuel subsidy removal by President Bola Tinubu on Monday. New Telegraph observed that many filling stations in Osogbo metropolis, stopped selling Premium Motor Spirit (petroleum) to motorists when they heard of Tinubu’s speech on petrol subsidy removal. Few filling stations that […]

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