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Works and housing minister Babatunde Fashola has said that massive investment in human capital development was “very crucial”  to poverty reduction. “It is important to invest in the development of personnel; there are competing demands for government’s limited resources, but we shall continue to pay special attention to human capital development,” Fashola said on Friday. He spoke shortly after an inspection tour of the Electrical/Mechanical Training School, a training arm of the ministry located in Kuje, Abuja. “We need to improve on the standards; we must acknowledge the vision of those who started this training school. Our desire is to…

A burial for Zimbabwe’s former president, Robert Mugabe, will be held at the National Heroes Acre sometime in October, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Friday. It was previously agreed that there would be a symbolic burial on Sunday in the hilltop shrine in Harare, reserved for the country’s ruling elite, but family spokesman, Leo Mugabe, told reporters this plan had now been cancelled. The body will now go to Mugabe’s hometown of Zvimba on Sunday for traditional funeral rituals to be carried out before the burial. Mugabe will be buried in October after a mausoleum at the National Heroes Acre has…

The Northeast chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC has congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari on his victory at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal PEPT, saying the defeat of their son and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, Atiku Abubakar shows that the president is ‘far better’ than their son. Addressing newsmen at the APC national secretariat after a closed door reconciliation meeting of all aggrieved members of the party before, during and after 2019 general elections, the North-east National Vice Chairman of the party, Comrade Mustapha Salihu, said the outcome of the judgment at the tribunal was…

Senator Dino Melaye has rejected the  appointment as the Director-General of the Kogi State Governorship Campaign Council by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Melaye who has been sacked by an election tribunal as senator stated this via his official Twitter account on Friday. He said that though the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan had told newsmen that he would be the DG of Kogi State Governorship Campaign Council for the party. READ: Buhari challenges APC leadership, governors on survival of APC “Let me state categorically that I have turned down the position of Director-General of the PDP Kogi State…

President Muhammadu Buhari has said the heavy schedule of the inaugural Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting on Wednesday held his attention for many hours, keeping him from following the court ruling that validated his victory at the poll. The president stated this when he received All Progressives Congress (APC) party leaders and members of the Progressives Governors’ Forum at the State House, Abuja, on Friday. Buhari said he was happy with the outcome of the judgment, urging the governors to join hands in strengthening the party for the future. He said: “By some coincidence, this judgment came on the same…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday challenged the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the APC state governors on the need to institutionalise the party to guarantee its survival beyond the end of his tenure in 2023. The president gave the challenge when he received APC governors who were in the State House, Abuja, to congratulate him on the Wednesday Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal’s judgment which upheld his election. “What I will say to the chairman of the party and governors  in return for your congratulating me is to make sure you really institutionalise the party so that when…

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) says it is worried over what it described as undue delay in releasing the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) judgment record on the Feb. 23 election. The party raised the alarm in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Friday in Abuja. The election petition tribunal had on Wednesday dismissed the petition by PDP and Atiku Abubakar against the election and victory of President Muhammadu Buhari at the poll. The PDP had indicated its intention to head for the Supreme Court to seek redress. Ologbondiyan demanded the immediate release of the…

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, will be representing President Muhammadu Buhari at the State Funeral for former President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, tomorrow. Prof. Osinbajo would be joining other African leaders and Heads of State expected at the occasion scheduled for the country’s National Stadium in Harare. Heads of State expected to attend the funeral include President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa and President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya. READ: FG’s commitment to lifting 100m Nigerians out of poverty sacrosanct – Agba Mugabe, who was Zimbabwean Prime Minister and later President for 37 years altogether, up until 2017, died last week at the…

Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Ikanade Agba, has assured the European Union (EU) of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government’s commitment to the agenda of taking 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in the next ten years. Agba, who spoke at an audience in his office in Abuja with a team of the EU, led by Minister Counsellor and Head of Co-operation of EU Delegation to Nigeria & ECOWAS, Mr Kurt Cornelis, said one of the major thrusts of the administration’s priorities, in its second term, was the strategic and incremental liberation, over time, of that…

The Anambra House of Assembly on Friday urged the Federal Government to ensure that the South African Government adequately compensate Nigerians, whose investments and businesses were looted and vandalised. The assembly’s resolution followed a motion raised under Matters of Urgent Public Importance by Dr Timothy Ifedioranma (Njikoka lI), on the floor of the House in Awka. Ifedioranma described the South Africans attacks on Nigerians as barbaric, cruel, nefarious, inhuman, and crime against humanity. He said that such act deserved total condemnation in the strongest possible terms. “Businesses owned by foreigners, predominantly Nigerians, resident in Johannesburg, Jeppestown, Durban and other parts…