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Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu GCFR (born 29 March 1952) is a Nigerian politician who is serving as the 16th and current president of Nigeria since 2023. [1] He previously served as the governor of Lagos State from 1999 to 2007, and senator for Lagos West in the Third Republic .
On 16 August 2023, President Bola Tinubu appointed him minister of State for Health and Social Welfare. He was sworn in on 21 August 2023. [5] [6] On 23 October 2024, President Tinubu redeployed Alausa as Minister of Education, [7] replacing Prof. Tahir Mamman, one of the five ministers dismissed by the president. [8]
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu on Monday swore in 45 ministers to a new cabinet that must get to grips with tackling the problems of sluggish growth, a weak currency and high inflation in Africa's ...
The country's national grid and its airports were shut down on 3 June 2024, as were banks, hospitals and schools. The government responded by denouncing the unions' demands as "unreasonable" and declaring the strike to be illegal. The following day, the NLC and TUC suspended the strike, pending talks with the government over raising the minimum ...
At least 35 children were killed and six others critically injured in a crowd crush at a funfair in the Nigerian city of Ibadan on Wednesday, police said.
Zubaida Umar Abubakar (born 21 May 1977) is a Nigerian public servant, administrator, and Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), [1] appointed on March 15, 2024, [2] by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. She is a native of Birnin Kebbi in Kebbi State in the Northern part of Nigeria. [3] [4]
Professor Nentawe Goshwe Yilwatda (born 8 August 1968) is a Nigerian politician, engineer, and academic who serves as the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction in Nigeria, appointed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in October 2024.
In November, news outlets published newly certified United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois' documents outlining Tinubu's drug dealing-connected money forfeiture in 1993. [21] Although the Tinubu campaign denied the allegations, observers noted that Tinubu himself did not speak on the subject. [22]