President Bola Tinubu has sacked the newly appointed Vice-chancellor of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka (NAU), Bernard Odoh. NAU, a federal university in Anambra State, is popularly known as UNIZIK. Mt Tinubu also dissolved the university’s Governing Council led by Greg Mbadiwe. Bayo Onanuga, the special adviser to Mr Tinubu on Information and Strategy, announced … Read more
President Bola Tinubu’s administration has scrapped the Ministry of Sports Development and reinstated the National Sports Commission. This decision was made at Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja. The National Sports Commission, previously dissolved by the Muhammadu Buhari government in 2015, will now oversee sports development in Nigeria. Established in 1971, READ ALSO: Tinubu scraps … Read more
The family of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to release the IPOB leader in honour of the late leader of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu. Mr Kanu, who is facing terrorism charges, has been in detention since he was repatriated to Nigeria from Kenya in … Read more
A former National Legal Adviser of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mark Jacob, has asked the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, to take the honourable decision of leaving the party. Mr Jacob called out Mr Wike on Arise News’s ‘Morning Show’ on Thursday morning. He accused Mr Wike, who holds a … Read more
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has described state governors’ desire to determine their state’s minimum wage as divisive and capable of deepening poverty in the country. It said the notion was dictatorial and undermined the essence and model of creating a national minimum wage in Nigeria. It urged President Bola Tinubu, who had promised the … Read more
A federal lawmaker, Philip Agbese, has justified the House of Representatives Committee on National Security and Intelligence’s recommendation for purchasing new aircraft for President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima. Mr Philip, a member of the House of Representatives and deputy chairperson of the House Committee on Information, cautioned that failure to comply with … Read more
Nnamdi Kanu’s legal team on Thursday called on President Bola Tinubu and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, to see to the release of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) from custody. The team, led by Nnaemeka Ejiofor, made the appeal after delivering a … Read more
The Nigerian government has halted the transfer of regulatory oversight of the electricity market to state governments. Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, disclosed this while speaking at the eighth edition of the Africa Energy Market Place (AEMP) Nigeria, in Abuja, on Friday. He explained that this was due to the need for state governments … Read more
The president expects that the new heads of these important agencies will discharge their duties with utmost fidelity to the nation. The post Tinubu appoints CEOs for two agencies appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria. Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Pioneer Newz is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each … Read more
President Bola Tinubu has appealed to members of the National Assembly to exercise restraint in summoning heads of ministries, departments, and agencies before parliamentary committees. Speaking at the breaking of the Ramadan fast on Wednesday in Abuja with the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, and the leadership of the House, the president … Read more
