Constitute Varsity Councils - FG orders minister

Adamu damu - Minister for Education

The Federal Government has directed the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, as a matter of urgency, to inaugurate the approved governing councils of federal universities to hasten academic and social development in the institutions.

Daily Sun learnt that President Muhammadu Buhari had, last month, approved the governing councils of no fewer than 24 federal universities. The minister, during the inauguration of the governing councils of the University of Port Harcourt and Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, in Abuja, announced that the councils would be inaugurated before the end of February.

Visa, Travel requirements eased - FG

Lai Mohammed - Minister for Information

Foreigners, who wish to visit Nigeria for business and tourism purposes, will no longer be subjected to any bureaucratic bottleneck, following the review of visa processes by the Federal Government.

The move is designed to encourage business travellers and tourists to boost the economy.

Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed, in a statement issued in Lagos yesterday, said the measures were part of the plan to ease doing business as well as efforts to boost tourism in line with the President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s economic diversification agenda.

The Evolution Of Yemi Osinbajo By Jideofor Adibe

 

As Acting President this time around, a more compassionate Osinbajo appears to have emerged from the old Osinbajo that eagerly framed issues in the simplistic and hard line approaches favored by his boss.

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BY JIDEOFOR ADIBEFEB 23, 2017

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has been receiving deserved kudos for the way he has been holding down the fort since Buhari went on medical vacation in England on January 19, 2017. In this round as Acting President, Osinbajo seems to have brought a new style, which he had not displayed previously.

The Hypocrisy of President Buhari and Elrufai, His Mini Me By Reno Omokri

With President Muhammadu Buhari's lawyer's ₦500,000 'gift' to Justice Adeniyi Ademola while the certificate case was being tried before that judge and with the Secretary to the Government of the Federation's Grasscuttergate scandal, can we all stop pretending and accept that the anti corruption war is dead?

Osinbajo commits to changes in business visas, nation's ports and ...

                             Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN

Committed to achieving its objective of creating a conducive business environment in Nigeria, the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) chaired by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN has approved a 60-day national action plan to push through short term reforms.

DISCOs owe TCN N107bn

The Transmission Company of Nige­ria (TCN) was owed about N107 billion as at December 2016 as arrears for energy wheeled to the 11 Distribution Companies (Discos) and other electricity industry operators according to a report from Daily Trust.

20m need help from starvation in Africa - UN

More than $4 billion is needed by the end of March to help nearly 20 million people who risk starvation in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday.