Tag: VP
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Tanzanian VP highlights urgent global health challenges
Tanzanian Vice President, Dr. Philip Isdor Mpango, has underscored the pressing global health challenges facing humanity. These challenges, he said, include insecurity crises, stubborn diseases, health pandemic
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Osinbajo: A leader for all seasons – By Azu Ishiekwene
Trying to fit him into a mold can be sometimes problematic. I have always thought of him as a teacher and mentor. And later, only much later, as a friend. For over three decades he has been more than enough in each of these roles. My path with Dr. Yemi Osinbajo, as he then was,…
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Osinbajo to speak on presidential ambition soon – VP Spokesperson, Laolu Akande
Professor Yemi Osinbajo’s spokesperson, Laolu Akande has said that the Vice president will make his presidential ambition decision known in no distance time. While fielding questions from state house correspondents during the Osinbajo’s 65th birthday ceremony in the presidential villa on Tuesday, Akande mentioned that at the appropriate time the Vice president will tell Nigerians…
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2023 Elections : We will Prevail on Osinbajo to contest – Citizens Unite
Citizens Unite, a pressure group, was yesterday inaugurated in Lagos to pressurise Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to join the 2023 presidential race. Leader of the group and convener of the event, Dr Maryam Shettima, said Nigeria needed thoroughbred professionals, academics, intellectuals, loyal politicians and emphatic citizens at the helm of its national affairs. She said…
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And now the bad news from the VP, By Dele Sobowale
“FG has started implementing Economic Sustainability Plan – Osinbajo.” VANGUARD, August 11, 2020, p 19. “If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.” That is not original to me. The original author was Mark Anthony in Shakespeare’s (1564-1616) play JULIUS CAESAR. But the great(est) British writer/poet had provided the most appropriate opening statement in…
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ASAP: VP’s Wife says “Area Boy” play reminds her of Lagos slum experience
The Wife of the Vice President, Mrs Oludolapo Osinbajo has said that the play, “Area Boy’’ reminded her of time spent working in the slums of Lagos amongst area boys. The Public Relations Agency that made the statement available to newsmen on Saturday, said that Osinbajo disclosed this at the National Conference for the MTN-led…
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SDP crisis: Gana throws out VP offer, insists on running for president
The embattled former Minister of Information, Professor Jerry Gana on Saturday disclosed that he is in the Social Democratic Party (SDP), to win the forthcoming 2019 presidential election and not to be running mate to former Cross River State Governor, Donald Duke. Gana, at the unveiling of his campaign programme tagged ‘SWIFT’ said the leadership…
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Just in: Osinbajo may lose his VP position, says Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has hinted that he may appoint another Vice President should he win the 2019 presidential election, as Yemi Osinbajo’s ”position is threatened.” The president revealed this on Friday when he hosted a delegation of the Conference of Nigerian Female Parliamentarians at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. “It is a pity the VP is…
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Undue Process: VP, SGF forces female top shot out of office
The seeming absence of due process in the current administration has again come to the fore as the Office of Vice President and Secretary to the Government of the Federation have been fingered in wrongful disengagement of Mrs Maryam Danna, a top shot at the Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC), Economic Confidential has learnt.…