When the next managing director of the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc (NBET) assumes office, one of the knotty issues he will have to crack is the N13.5 billion claim by Sepco-Pacific Energy Co Ltd, owners of Omotosho and Olorunsogo power-generating plants. The controversy over the payment is believed by industry insiders to have contributed in no small measure to the [...]
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says President Muhammadu Buhari is seriously concerned about problems associated with the lockdown. Buhari had ordered a 14-day lockdown in Lagos, Ogun and the federal capital territory to contain the spread of coronavirus. Speaking with an NTA correspondent after meeting the president, Osinbajo said Buhari is concerned about the problems associated with the lockdown, especially in relation to [...]
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says the new value-added tax (VAT) rate of 7.5 percent is still low when compared to that of other African countries. NAN quoted Osinbajo as saying this while speaking at the Inspiration Conference 2020 organised by the Redeemer’s Men Fellowship in Lagos on Saturday. President Muhammadu Buhari recently signed the finance law which increased VAT by 50% from the [...]
Plans are underway for IbomAir to begin scheduled flights on Cameroon-Nigeria route, according to Emmanuel Ekuwem, secretary to the government of Akwa Ibom state. Briefing reporters after the last state executive council meeting for 2019, Ekuwen said there’s a demand for Cameroonians to be connected directly to Lagos or Abuja instead of flying to Lome(Togo) before connecting a flight to Abuja [...]
The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) has clarified the reasons behind the postponement of the integrity award Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo was shortlisted for. In a statement on Tuesday, the centre said it was wrong in its use of language that suggested the award was postponed to protest the ill-treatment of Omoyele Sowore, convener of the "Revolution Now" movement. Motunrayo Alaka, [...]
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has released a copy of the letter he wrote to Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) excusing himself from the ceremony where he was to receive an "integrity award". In the letter released by Laolu Akande, Osinbajo’s spokesman, the vice-president said it would be insensitive for him to attend the award ceremony in the light of the [...]
The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) says it has postponed the integrity award to be presented to Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo to protest against Omoyele Sowore's rearrest in court. In a statement on Monday, the centre said honouring Osinbajo with the award in the light of recent protests against Sowore’s travails and the “repression“ of free speech will be inappropriate. The [...]
Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, says President Muhammadu Buhari is too powerful for anyone to control. Shehu said this in reaction to comments that some individuals influenced the sacking of some aides of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo. More than 30 persons working with Osinbajo were asked to go earlier in the week. Explaining the reason for the action, Shehu said it was in line with Buhari’s directive for “an [...]
’But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also’’ – Jesus Christ in Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:39). I am not a pastor. In fact, I do not subscribe to the wedges and hedges of religion, but there is, no doubt, wisdom in [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked 35 aides working in the office of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, according to Daily Nigerian. TheCable also confirmed the development from senior presidency sources. Buhari, who is in the UK, approved the sack of the aides on Tuesday. "Osinbajo is hoping that President Buhari will rescind the decision," a senior presidency official told TheCable, maintaining that the sackings were done [...]
Why are Nigerian politicians ravished by the thought of election? They complot and machinate over it. And when they eventually get into office, they spend four years scheming for another turn instead of honouring their contract with citizens. There is always a blue-print for the next election, but a subterfuge for governance and duty. The last general election was held in [...]
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says Nigeria recorded a high rate of poverty despite increasing oil revenues as a result of corruption. Osinbajo said this on Thursday while speaking at the unveiling of FLAG’IT mobile application, an anti-corruption tool launched by the Akin Fadeyi Foundation in Abuja. Represented by Fatima Waziri-Azi, special adviser on rule of law in the office of the vice-president, Osinbajo also [...]
Tunde Bakare, senior pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly, says Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo must not be “disgraced out of office”. Speaking with journalists in Lagos on Sunday, Bakare said he finds it difficult to believe the vice-president violated his oath of office. He said he had a telling conversation with a UK-based pastor, who forwarded a message regarding Nigeria’s economic situation to [...]
You can accuse Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo of being ‘’down-to-earth’’, considering his pint-size. You can also accuse him of intellectual exuberance, but you cannot tack corruption to him. It will not stick. Over the years, the maelstrom of anger against Osinbajo has widened. The reason for this, perhaps, is the perception by some Nigerians that he is not standing up enough for [...]
The Ondo state chapter of the Southwest Youth Congress (SYC) says no amount of gimmicks or lies against Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo can stop him from becoming Nigeria’s president in 2023. The group made this known on Thursday during a procession for Osinbajo's candidacy in Akure, the state capital. Bamise Akintomide, who led the state chapter of SYC, alleged that "desperate cabals" are [...]
Vanguard Newspapers has apologised to Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo over a report the latter said is injurious to his person. In a statement published on its website on Wednesday, the newspaper also said it is retracting the entire report. In the story titled, ‘N90 bn FIRS election fund, Osinbanjo’s problem, not 2023 politics – Frank’, Vanguard had quoted Timi Frank, a former deputy national [...]
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