The two leading political parties in Nigeria have condemned the postponement of the 2019 general elections by INEC. Festus Keyamo, the spokesperson for the APC Presidential Campaign council said in a statement that the party “received with great disappointment and disillusionment the announcement” about the postponement. “We
President Buhari has told Igbo leaders complaining about marginalisation not to do so as he has been fair in the appointments he has made so far in his administration. The president said this yesterday January 24th in Anambra state where he went for his presidential campaign.
A clip from PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar‘s comments on Wednesday is making the rounds on social media. Atiku was addressing the business community in Lagos at an event themed “Getting Nigeria’s Economy Working : A Pragmatic Approach” when he began discussing privatising the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday launched the new 10-year validity Nigerian international passport. Buhari and vice president Yemi Osinbajo underwent their biometrics capturing by the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) and were presented with their diplomatic passports by the Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau, and the Comptroller General of NIS, Mohammed Babandede. The
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari as a “safe haven to known criminals.” The opposition party said this while reaction to the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina, who is wanted for fraud. In a statement by Dayo Adeyeye, spokesman of the PDP
A 10-year-old girl Aysha Aliyu Gebi who wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari, asking that she’d like to see him, has been invited to Aso Rock. “Dear President Muhammadu Buhari,” she wrote in the letter posted by her uncle on Twitter. “I am Aysha Aliyu Gebi. I am from
The governor of Ekiti, Ayodele Fayose says President Muhammadu Buhari is the “number one promoter of disunity in Nigeria”. He spoke in reaction to the comments of the president of World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, who said Buhari asked the institution to focus on the
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has questioned President Muhammadu Buhari’s fresh external loan request of $5.5 billion pending before the National Assembly for approval. In a statement on Wednesday, by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Prince Dayo Adyeye, the party accused the President of mortgaging the future of
“There will be times that we are powerless when we face evil, injustice and tyranny but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. This man Buhari is a cancer that keeps growing and the only proper thing to do is to
ast month, there was a public outcry over the decision of the Federal Government to offer it’s first Sukuk bonds as a means of raising funds for capital infrastructure. There was a large number of Nigerians who were simply confused as to why there was
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Ibe Kachikwu on Friday morning met with President Muhammadu Buhari over a letter he wrote accusing the GMD of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru of insubordination. The letter detailed major contracts amounting to about $26 billion awarded by Baru but not reviewed by the
By Masara Kim Usman President Muhammadu Buhari in his 2017 Independence Day broadcast demonstrated true qualities of a humble leader when he admitted his participation in the Civil War. The Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War (July 6, 1967 – January 13,
President Muhammadu Buhari is currently in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital and headquarters of Operation Lafiya Dole to celebrate Nigeria’s 57th anniversary with troops. President Buhari disclosed this on Facebook, saying: I’m spending today visiting our troops in Maiduguri. The entire nation thanks our gallant Armed Forces
President Muhammadu Buhari has said he would never allow Nigeria disintegrate under his administration. Buhari made his position known in a national speech to mark the nation’s 57th independence anniversary on Saturday. The President said, “In the past two years, Nigeria has recorded appreciable
The Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere has said it is dangerous for the military to be deployed to tackle civil matters in some parts of the country. This was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of the monthly meeting of the group at the residence