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The Federal Government will train 100,000 graduates as extension workers out of the 500,000 graduates to be engaged as teachers. Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo made the declaration while launching the agricultural sector roadmap entitled: “The Green Alternative: Agriculture Promotion...

The Federal Government is planning to tax 700,000 more companies as part of efforts to increase non-oil revenue and addresss the economic mess facing Nigeria Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo said this on Thursday during the 2016 Presidential Policy Dialogue Session, organised by the Lagos Chamber...

Video of the official flag up of the clean up project of Bodo town, Rivers State. Ogoni Clean-Up: READ Everything That Transpired At The Event

President Muhamamdu Buhari has signed the 2016 budget of 'change' into law. According to Channels Television, the president Buhari did it in the presence of the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, and the chairmen of the National Assembly appropriation committees who had arrived the...

The Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Sulu Gambari, has urged the Nigerian government to take a decisive action on the incessant herdsmen attacks on communities to avert the risk of another security crisis like the Boko Haram in the north of the country. Alhaji Gambari told the Vice President, Prof Yemi...

The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo and the Speaker of the House of Representative met on Friday to resolve the controversies surrounding the 2016 budget. According to PUNCH, the Presidency, in the course of the exchange of ideas, itemised the “grey areas” in the N6.06trn budget, politely...

Nigeria’s vice president, Prof Yemi Osinbajo got more than he bargained for when he visited Nigerian northern state, Kano on April 9. According to PM News, Osinbajo was not only dazed by the rousing reception he got but could also have been mobbed by the joyous residents. See photos...

The Vice President in his key note address during the maiden edition of the National Forum on the economy, organised by Vintage Press publishers of The Nation Newspaper, themed: ‘ National Economy: The Way Forward’ yesterday, explained why electricity tariff increased. Osinbajo listed the...

The Presidency has refuted some media reports that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s trip to India tomorrow had been cancelled following the journey of President Mohammadu Buhari’s to Equatorial Guinea. The Vice President is billed for Indian/African summit. It was earlier reported widely that...

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday said that the federal government, under late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and former President Goodluck Jonathan did not build “a single new road” in the last 10 years. Speaking at the pastors and leaders retreat of the Fountain of Life Church in...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is currently meeting behind closed doors with some chieftains of the ruling All Progressives Congress at the Aso rock. Those in attendance include a leader of the party; Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; former Vice President Atiku Abubakar; the party’s National Chairman, Chief...

See photos of how a man was arrested for overtaking the convoy of Edward Ssekandi-Uganda’s Vice President. Uganda is practising democratic presidential republic, in which the President of Uganda is both head of state and head of government. There is a multi-party system. Executive power is...

Nigeria's Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo said, yesterday, that the country is bound to have health crises with the current number of extremely poor Nigerians. The vice president, however, said that there were specific provisions in the 2016 Appropriation Bill to tackle poverty, DailyTrust...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has queried the Director-General of the agency, Benjamin Dikki, on the alleged N1.45billion legal and consultancy fees scandal in the Bureau of Public Enterprises(BPE). According to The Nation, the controversial contracts include a curious N950million job for the...

Ibrahim Idris Wambai, the former Accounts Officer II, has revealed that that the Office of Nigeria’s former Vice President Namadi Sambo was on a monthly stipend of N20million from the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) led by former NSA, Sambo Dasuki. He pointed out that some...

Take a quick look at the six most important personalities in the president Mohammadu Buhari's life. They are very close to the office of the president of Nigeria. They set the pace and dictate the tune of what will happen to the country in the years of this administration alongside the...

The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has told the members of Staff of the Nigerian High Commission in London that no country would survive with high level of corruption and that corruption will no longer be tolerated in Nigeria. He said, “No country can survive with the level of corruption...