Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo is currently in the United Kingdom to attend the graduation of his son, Fiyinfoluwa.Laolu Akande, senior special assistant to the vice-president on media and publicity, made this known on Twitter on Wednesday."VP Osinbajo is in the UK attending his son's graduation today. He returns to Abuja tomorrow," he tweeted.https://twitter.com/akandeoj/status/1151491101699837952Akande, however, did not state the name of the [...]
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Laolu Akande, media aide to Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, says his principal is a "well-known" stickler for the rule of law.Akande said this in reaction to the indictment by the house of representatives committee on emergency and disaster preparedness.The committee had accused Osinbajo of illegally approving N5.8 billion for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).Osinbajo gave the approval when he was [...]

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says President Muhammadu Buhari has ensured that nobody steals from the nation's treasury.In a statement on Monday by Laolu Akande, senior special assistant to the vice-president on media and publicity, Osinbajo said the country's major problem before the current administration came in was that people were stealing from the treasury.The vice-president said once the country is able [...]

Jide Omokore, a business associate of Diezani Alison-Madueke, a former minister of petroleum resources, has denied stealing $3 billion in connivance with the minister.Laolu Akande, spokesman of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, had accused the trio of Omokore, Alison-Madueke and Kola Aluko, another businessman, of stealing $3 billion from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).Akande had said: “The companies of both Jide Omokore [...]

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and his family are currently on vacation in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).Laolu Akande, spokesman of Osinbajo, disclosed this in a tweet.Akande did not disclose when Osinbajo travelled but said he is expected to return to the country this weekend."VP Osinbajo, his wife & children have been resting abroad on his annual leave," he tweeted."He is expected [...]

The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) says “nothing concrete” has been done regarding the clean-up of Ogoni land.At a press briefing in Port Harcourt, Rivers state capital, on Thursday, MOSOP warned against government's continued delay over the exercise.They gave the federal government a December deadline to commence the clean-up, lamenting that the oil spills in the [...]

Laolu Akande, spokesperson of Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, says that the new distribution method will curb diversion of relief materials meant for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).The aide said that the acting president launched a programme on June 8 to distribute grains to 1.8 million people still displaced by the insurgency, many of whom reside in internally displaced persons camp.According to [...]