The presidency has said Trader Moni, a scheme to provide small funds for petty traders in Nigeria, is still on, and would reach 10 million petty traders in the country.Laolu Akande, a senior special assistant to Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, made this disclosure late Wednesday, saying the government has continued giving the loans since the All Progressives Congress (APC) won the [...]
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Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has described former president Olusegun Obasanjo's comment on TraderMoni as ignorant and mischievous.In a statement, Laolu Akande, senior special assistant to the vice-president on media and publicity, said the former president has shown a complete misunderstanding of the programme initiated by the federal government to support petty traders.In his state of the nation address tagged 'Points for [...]
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says Nigeria will stop importing rice by next year.According to Laolu Akande, senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, Osinbajo said this on Sunday at the palace of Musa Dogonkadai, the Seriki of the Hausa community in Agege, Lagos.He said leaders of those countries help their farmers to expand their farms so that they [...]
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 [...]
Laolu Akande, senior special assistant to the vice-president on media and publicity, says the TraderMoni loan given to petty traders is not meant to buy voters.In a statement on Friday in Abuja, Akande said Nigerians are not for sale and cannot be bought.He was reacting to a statement by southern, middle belt leaders who accused Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo of “bribing [...]
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 [...]
Laolu Akande, senior special assistant to the vice-president on media and publicity, says it is untrue that beneficiaries of the federal government's Trademoi, N10,000 collateral-free loan, must present their permanent voters cards (PVC), to qualify for the scheme.Akande said this while giving update on the initiative.He said no documentation of any kind is required before one is qualified for the [...]
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 [...]
Laolu Akande, spokesman of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, says his principal is standing by the allegations of corruption he levelled against the government of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan.He said this on Monday, while reacting to a report attributed to “Jonathan’s media office” on previous allegations.Osinbajo had been accused of lying against the ex-president or his government by citing the looting of the nation’s [...]
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, presidential spokesman, has described as "mischievous" reports that President Muhammadu Buhari is teleguiding Acting President Yemi Osinbajo.Responding to a question from TheCable on a widely circulated report alleging that a cabal was holding Osinbajo back from exercising presidential powers, Akande said such speculation was "curious"."Acting President Osinbajo has the full authority and as you can see he is [...]
Laolu Akande, spokesperson of Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, says work has already begun on the clean-up of Ogoniland.TheCable had reported that the clean-up was yet to commence one year after President Muhammadu Buhari flagged off the exercise.In reaction, Wale Edun, the chairman of the board of trustees for the clean-up, had said machinery was in place for necessary funding for [...]
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo will on Wednesday swear in the two ministers-designate who were screened and confirmed by the senate in April.Laolu Akande, spokesman of the acting president, disclosed this in a tweet on Tuesday evening.AgP Osinbajo would be swearing in the two new ministers already confirmed by the Senate tomorrow morning @ start of the Federal Exco meeting — Laolu [...]
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 [...]
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has returned to the country after the G7 summit in Sicily, Italy.Laolu Akande, his spokesman, announced this around 6pm on Saturday.While announcing the departure of the acting president, Akande had said his principal would return later on Saturday."AgP Osinbajo now back in Lagos after participating in the G7 summit Africa outreach. In his speech he said [...]
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