•Tinubu and presidential jets The federal government spent about N26.38bn on the Presidential Air Fleet within the first 18 months of President Bola Tinubu’s administration, indicating the high cost of maintaining executive air mobility amid persistent calls for austerity. An analysis of spending records obtained from Govspend, a civic tech pl...
•Peter Obi Politician and former presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi has called on the federal government to give an account of its dealings and operations regarding the old and new presidential jets. Obi’s stance comes following recent controversies around the Ogun State government’s contract wi...
•Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun, has reached out to the federal government in a move to resolve the dispute with the Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Co. over the controversial Ogun Free Trade Zone. Abiodun reportedly consulted top federal officials on Thursday, as a professor of Political Economy, P...
•Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar, says sub-national actors such as states should not enter foreign or international negotiations without the input of the ministry of foreign affairs or the federal government. He was speaking on the efforts being made to resolve the dispute with...
•Peter Obi The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, has described the report of the seizure of three presidential jets in France as another embarrassment which exposed failed leadership in Nigeria. A French court ordered the seizure of the jets following a contract dispute between Ogun State and a [&hell...
•Presidential aircraft The federal government says legal and diplomatic efforts are ongoing to recover some seized presidential jets. The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Lateef Fagbemi, stated this in a statement yesterday through his spokesman, Kamarudeen Ogundele. The AGF described as inappropriate, court orders against three presi...
•Governor Dapo Abiodun The Ogun State Government, today, faulted the process that led to the provisional attachment of three Nigerian-owned aircraft in France by the Judicial Court of Paris. In a statement signed by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Strategy, Kayode Akinmade, the Ogun State Government described the latest develo...
•Presidential jets The presidency has broken its silence on a French Court for the seizure of three Nigerian Presidential jets. It was earlier reported how the court ordered seizure of the aircraft over a botched deal involving Ogun State government and a Chinese company, citing Financial Times. The jets listed for seizure are a Dassault [&hel...
•Presidential Jet A French court has authorised the seizure of three presidential jets linked to the Federal Government of Nigeria. According to PREMIUM TIMES, quoting unnamed sources familiar with the matter, “Two of the jets, part of the Nigerian presidential air fleet, were recently put up for sale, while the third, an Airbus 330, was [&hel...
•Nigerian Presidential Airforce plane The federal government, under the administration of President Bola Tinubu, disbursed a total sum of N14.77bn for the repair and maintenance of the presidential air fleet in 11 months. The payments, made in 11 tranches between July 16, 2023 and May 25, 2024, were processed through the State House headquarte...
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