Kashim Shettima, Nigerian Vice President, has assured the people of the country that the naira will continue to appreciate against the dollar, saying President Bola Ahmed Tinubu understands the game and would ensure the naira continues to appreciate. The Vice President disclosed this when a delegation of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, led…
Kashim Shettima, the Nigerian Vice-President, would return to Ivory Coast for the finals of the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) after witnessing the Super Eagles victory over Bafana Bafana of South Africa in the semi-final. The Informant247 reports that Shettima, amongst other dignitaries, witnessed the Semi-finals of AFCON live at Stade de la Paix in…
Kashim Shettima, the Nigerian Vice President on Tuesday, inaugurated the 37-member panel at the Council Chamber of the State House in Abuja. The panel, with its membership cutting across federal and state governments, the private sector, and organised labour, is to recommend a new national minimum wage for the country. Shettima, in his opening address,…
Kashim Shettima, the Nigerian Vice President, on Thursday, visited Kaduna State to commiserate with the victims and families of last Sunday’s military airstrikes at Tudun Biri village in Igabi Local Government Area of the state. The Informant247 gathered that the Vice-President was welcomed on arrival at the Nigerian Air Force base, Mando, by Governor Uba…
Kashim Shettima, the Nigerian Vice President, on Monday, when hosting the management of First Surat Group, as well as top management of MTN Nigeria, at the presidential villa in Abuja, urged the local and foreign investors to make the country their investment hub as he declares President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s determination to provide the enabling…
Nigerian Vice President Kashim Shettima on Friday attributed the hardship faced by the North-East to the activities of terrorists in the region. Shettima who lamented that terrorism had plagued the region for far too long, expressed optimism that the scourge would be defeated. The VP whose speech was read by the Senate President, Godwill Akpabio…
In another move to boost digital entrepreneurship in the country, the federal government of Nigeria has secured an additional $116 million from the French government. Nigeria’s minister of communications, innovation, and digital economy Bosun Tijani, made this known on his official X handle on Friday. Tijani, who represented Vice President Kashim Shettima in signing the…
Kashim Shettima, the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, on Sunday, departed Abuja to represent President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the 3rd Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Forum in Beijing, China, holding from Oct. 16 to 18. In a statement by Stanley Nkwocha, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and…
Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, an elder brother of Datti Baba-Ahmed, vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the February 25 election, has been appointed as the special adviser to vice-president Kashim Shettima on political matters. Baba-Ahmed, who also the spokesperson of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), announced the development in a post on Monday on his…
The immediate vice-president, Yemi Osinbajo has joined other well wisher to congratulate President Bola Tinubu on the presidential election petition tribunal’s verdict. The Informant247 had on Wednesday, reported that the tribunal upheld Tinubu’s victory in the February 25 presidential election. Haruna Tsammani-led five-man panel dismissed the petitions filed by Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic…
In preparation ahead of the Imo governorship election, which is scheduled for November 11, Kashim Shettima, the Nigeria’s vice-President and the national chairman of the All progressives congress (APC) Abdullahi Ganduje, are reported to be making attempts to reunite the Imo state governor, Hope Uzodinma, and the his predecessor, Rochas Okorocha, who is also a…
Kashim Shettima, Nigeria’s Vice-President is presiding over the National Economic Council (NEC) meeting at the presidential villa in Abuja. The Informant247 gathered that the meeting is the third NEC meeting of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration and this came amid spiralling inflation and hardship caused by the economic policies of the federal government. The…
Kashim Shettima, the Vice-President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, in his address at the UN Food Systems summit in Rome, said Nigeria no longer needs handouts from developed economies, but seeks real partnerships and investments. Referencing Napoleon Bonaparte, a French military commander, and political leader, the vice-president, in a statement on Monday, said recent economic policies…
Kashim Shettima, the Vice-President, Federal Republic of Nigeria will represent President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at summits in Rome, Italy and St Petersburg, Russia. The development was contained in a statement by Olusola Abiola, the director of information at the vice president’s office, saying the vice-president will depart Nigeria for Rome on Sunday, adding that Shettima…
Kashim Shettima-led National Economic Council (NEC) presided on Thursday, suspended the national social register under Muhammadu Buhari’s administration for lack of credibility, instead, proposed the implementation of a cash transfer programme for states based on their social registers and a cash reward policy for public servants for six months. The council’s decision was part of…
Kashim Shettima, the Vice President, Federal Republic of Nigeria is currently presiding over the national economic council (NEC) meeting in Aso Rock Villa, Abuja. It was gathered that the meeting, which is the second since inauguration of the council by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is focusing on how to cushion the effect of petrol subsidy…
Kashim Shettima, the Vice-President, Federal Republic of Nigeria is currently meeting with Hon Tajudeen Abbas-led principal officers of the National Assembly, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The Informant247 gathered that Also, high-ranking members of the House of Representatives, including the Deputy Speaker, Hon Benjamin Kalu, are also present at the meeting. The meeting will be…
Kashim Shettima, the Vice-President, Federal Republic of Nigeria on Friday, called on all Nigerians to support the actualisation of the policies and programmes of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Shettima made the call while receiving some members of the 9th Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, led by Senator Yahaya Oloriegbe, who paid him a…
The presidential election petition court on Wednesday, during proceedings admitted in evidence, a certified true copy of Vice-President Kashim Shettima’s voluntary resignation letter as the senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), for Borno central senatorial district. The Informant247 gathered that the letter, which dated July 6, 2022, was tendered by Wole Olanipekun, lawyer…
Kashim Shettima, the Vice-President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, on Monday, decorated the new Acting Comptroller-General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, at the Aso Rock inAbuja. This is coming one week after Adeniyi, alongside other new security chiefs, named the Acting Customs Chief by the Nigerian President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Monday, June 19, 2023. The…
