Tag: Osinbajo
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Osinbajo backs constitutional role for traditional rulers
Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, says traditional rulers deserve legal and constitutional role as they play vital roles in ensuring peace, security, stability and justice in the country. Osinbajo who spoke during a courtesy visit at the palace of the Emir of Keffi, Nasarawa State, Dr Shehu Yamusu III, on Sunday urged traditional rulers to…
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Osinbajo presides over FEC meeting
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday presided over the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting started around 11.03am when Osinbajo arrived the Council Chamber. President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday visited Borno State as part of efforts to sympathize with soldiers, who recently lost colleagues and friends and loved ones…
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CBN to commence issuance of licences to payment services banks – Osinbajo
…To launch $500m innovation fund Nigeria plans to upscale its financial services sector with the issuance of licences to payment services banks as part of efforts to deepen access to finance and drive economic growth. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) would soon start to issue the licences to increase…
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Osinbajo urges the Church to continue to pray for survival, progress of Nigeria
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Saturday urged the Church to continue to pray for the survival and progress of Nigeria. Speaking at the dedication of Dunamis International Gospel Centre, Abuja, 100,000- seat capacity auditorium, Osinbajo, said that with God, the country would move from glory to Glory and from strength to strength. Singing a song…
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2019: You deserve good governance, Osinbajo tells Igbos
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has informed the people of the South East that it is their right to obtain good governance and not to beg for it. Osinbajo who was on a double barrel mission to Enugu stated on Friday at the commissioning of the campaign office of the standard bearer of the All Progressives…
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Obasanjo tells AIT to tender apology over meeting with Osinbajo, Amaechi
…Says he owns no twitter account Ex- President Olusegun Obasanjo has asked the African Independent Television (AIT) to retract with apology, the airing of a photo on its social media segment, Kakaaki Social, where a purported tweeter account belonging to him, depicted a picture of an alleged meeting with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) and…
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2019: Osinbajo, Amaechi visit Obasanjo [Photos]
Photographs have emerged of a meeting Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo and the Director General of the President Mohammadu Buhari Campaign Organization, Rotimi Amaechi held with former President, Olusegun Obasanjo. According to reports making the rounds on the internet , the meeting between the duo and ex-President Obasanjo was held in Ota, Ogun State behind…
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Alleged mismanagement of NEMA funds: APC distracting attention from Osinbajo’s indictment – Atiku
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Wednesday, faulted the ruling All Progressives Congress over the APC’s “contradicting” statements about him recently. Atiku’s position was contained in a statement by the Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation. The organisation recalled that the APC last week accused Atiku of attempting to smuggle a…
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Alleged N5.8bn scam: Resign, submit yourself to trial – HURIWA urges Osinbajo
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has called for the comprehensive reorganization of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA. This follows the indictment of Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbanjo and the Director General of NEMA in a N5.8 billion scam by the House of Representatives. HURIWA also frowned at the ongoing squabble between…
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Buhari, Osinbajo not sincere about restructuring Nigeria – PDP, Afenifere, Ohanaeze, others
Some groups have faulted comments credited to President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on the trending restructuring debate in the country. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP); a Yoruba organisation, Afenifere; the Ohanaeze Ndigbo; the Yoruba Council of Elders; and the Transparency International all have issues with the position of the president and vice…