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Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, barred State House Correspondents from covering the wedding reception of his eldest daughter, Damilola, yesterday. Accredited State House journalists were bared from getting close to the venue of the reception at the Conference Centre (old Banquet Hall). Newsmen...

Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, has explained why President Muhammadu Buhari has not visited states that have witnessed killings in recent months. Osinbajo said he represented the president in some of the states, stating that condolence visits cannot compensate for loss of lives.In a chat with...

Vice President, Prof. Osibanjo Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday in Davos, Switzerland, said that the country was ready to partner international investors and friendly nations to develop Nigeria’s manufacturing sector. Osinbajo said this in a statement by his Special Senior Assistant on...

The Senate Ad hoc Committee on Security Infrastructure yesterday expressed shock that President Muhammadu Buhari, his deputy, Yemi Osinbajo, the National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno, and the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, all ignored several warnings of the planned attack on...

For the first time since assuming office as Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has proceeded on annual vacation to the United Arab Emirates. His spokesperson, Laolu Akande, in a tweet, on Wednesday, said the vice president left the country alongside his wife and children. The tweet...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday listed what he called incredible things, which he said, happened in Nigeria a few weeks before the 2015 general elections. The vice president spoke in Abuja at the legislative economic summit themed "Legislative Framework for Economic Recovery and...

The father of Vice President Osinbajo’s wife, Elder Olutayo Soyode, speaking in an exclusive interview with the Punch stated that he isn’t a big fan of visiting with his daughter. According to the close associate of the Late Obafemi Awolowo, going to the villa to visit his daughter was like...

Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo on Monday presided over the weekly meeting of President Muhammadu Buhari's economic management. The meeting focused on how revenue generating agencies can up their game. More details to come...

The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo presided over the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting at the Presidential Villa Abuja. Prof. Yemi Osinbajo stood for the President, Muhammadu Buhari who is presently attending the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York. The FEC Meeting...

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has dismissed reports that he will head the Federal Government’s negotiation team, who would meet with the representatives of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and put an end to the strike. Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the Vice...

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says the panel which probed Babachir Lawal, suspended secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), and Ayodele Oke, director-general of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), have done things properly in the interest of the country. Osinbajo while speaking...

Several high-ranking sources at the Presidency has told SaharaReporters that the decision to use the phrase, “the Vice President will coordinate the activities of the Government,” instead of expressing what the Constitution stipulates, that the Vice President becomes “Acting President” with the...

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Friday began duty as acting President of Nigeria. He received update and briefings from service chiefs on the situation in The Gambia. The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice-President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, disclosed this in a short...

Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, has expressed optimism that Nigerians will come out of the current recession happily. Speaking during a Town Hall meeting in Kano on Monday, the Vice President said Nigerians need a man in the pedigree of President Muhammadu Buhari. The Vice President who...

President Muhammadu Buhari is being represented this Saturday in Abu Dhabi by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo as Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates seek to build closer relationship and economic ties. The Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, who is also the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the UAE Armed...

President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government is currently working to introduce community policing that would be in line with the constitution. The Vice President stated this while answering question at the Nigeria Infrastructure Summit, organised by the Nigeria Initiative for Economic...

The National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu was said to have pressurized the leadership of the party for the position of Vice President ahead of the 2015 general election. These contrary opinion aganst Asiwaju Tinubu picking Vice President Yemi Osinbajo as...

President Muhammadu Buhari is ready to put everything on the line to make sure Nigeria is great and he has no other objective other than seeing this dream come true, says Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN. “This morning, I had a meeting with the President and he repeated to me twice, he said...

The Nigeria Governors’ Forum yesterday met with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa in Abuja over N250 billion shortfall in states’ statutory allocation. A presidency official who preferred anonymity told journalists yesterday that the governors took up the matter in response...

Nigeria's Vice president, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has reacted to the just released GDP figures for the 2016 second quarter by the National Bureau of Statistics. The vice president confirmed a temporary decline, saying it also indicated an hopeful expectation in the country's economic trajectory. A...