Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday, in London, said the Federal Government was undertaking extensive reforms in its ‘ease of doing business’ initiatives, barely five months after he signed executive orders for the initiatives which is aimed at improving the business environment in Nigeria. A statement made available to correspondent, by Laolu Akande, senior special […]
Read More Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo on Monday declared that Nigeria was an investors’ delight as the Buhari Presidency was making specific efforts to enable the private sector to thrive. Prof Osinbajo stated this at the Financial Times Africa Summit in London noting that the government of President Muhammadu Buhari, in the past months, had been […]
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Africa’s richest man and most successful industrialist, Aliko Dangote, today revealed the secret of his business success: self-sufficiency and backward integration, a manufacturing strategy that extracts value from entire processes. “We are not going to import anything any longer,” Dangote said, in the presence of Nigerian vice-president Professor Yemi Osinbajo, Congolese presidential hopeful Moise Katumbi, […]
Read More LONDON (Reuters) – Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said on Monday he had not given any thought on contesting the country’s next presidential election in 2019 and had no timeline for when he may make such a decision. Asked if he considered running for the presidency in the election scheduled for February 2019, Osinbajo said […]
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, has described as absurd the allegation that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), is not following due process in the printing of money to support government programmes. This is even as he has accused the civil society organizations of not doing enough to support in the Federal Government’s anti-corruption drive. He […]
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The President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki on Thursday stopped the request by the executive for virement of ₦135bn from the 2017 budget to execute certain priority projects from being thrown out. When the request for virement came up for consideration at plenary, many of the senators kicked against it and described the request […]
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The Federal Government says it hopes the 2018 Appropriation Bill will be passed into law by the National Assembly in December. According to ChannelsTv, the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, disclose this while speaking at a dialogue session with members of civil society organisations on Thursday in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. Professor Osinbajo also revealed plans […]
Read More The Nigeria Federal Government on Thursday disclosed that the state governments were beginning to neglect the provision of adequate water supply and sanitation, particularly in urban areas. It also stated that the neglect had further worsened water supply situation across the country, as access to potable water had dropped from 32 per cent in 1990 […]
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The Federal Government has disbursed ₦125 million as loans to Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) in Akwa Ibom. The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, disclosed this at the Nationwide MSME Clinics for viable enterprises, Akwa Ibom Edition in Uyo on Saturday. Osinbajo said “about 2,445 Akwa Ibom people have benefitted from the programme across […]
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Nigeria’s Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday advised states and local government administrations in the country to urgently harness their untapped resources for greater economic development, as the days of over-relying on the Federal Government for survival were gone for good. This was even as he also urged them to support the Federal Government in […]
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Despite stiff opposition by various stakeholders against the privatisation of the nation’s leading airports, Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Monday, disclosed that the Federal Executive Council (FEC) has agreed to concession the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, and Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja. Speaking at the fifth edition of the presidential quarterly business forum, which held […]
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Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, GCON has said that Nigerians both young and old ‘should ask, what can they do to make Nigeria truly great? What is their contribution? In what way by word, deed, action, can they really bring about a country that is great? A country that we can be proud of? […]
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