By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari will on Sunday depart for Washington, USA to join other African leaders at the United States-Africa Leaders Summit. The president’s spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu disclosed this in a statement issued on Saturday. ‘Shehu said: ‘The High Level Meeting which holds Dec....
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By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed shock over the reported kidnapping of five newborn babies in Anambra State, directing that the rising crime rate in the areas be reduced without any delay. President Buhari stated this in a statement issued by his spokesman, Malam Garba...
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, says the newly redesigned Naira notes are already in banks and ready for issuance. According to a statement in CBN’s official twitter handle, Emefiele said so in Daura while on a visit to brief President on the...
By PATRICK ABANG Calabar – President Muhammadu Buhari has described the former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Sen. Godswill Akpabio’s giant development stride in Akwa Ibom State during his tenure as governor as second to none. President Buhari stated this in his felicitation message to the former governor of...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the h former Minister of Defence, Lt. Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (rtd), as he turns 85 on December 9, 2022. The president’s congratulatory message was contained in a statement issued by his spokesman Mr Femi Adesina on Thursday in Abuja....
President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated that the 2023 general elections would be free, fair and credible, as manipulations would not be allowed in any form. The President’s media aide, Malam Garba Shehu in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, said the president gave the assurance while hosting West African...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari will on Wednesday in Bissau, Guinea Bissau, be decorated with the country’s highest honour in recognition of his contributions to the political stability of the West African nation. The President’s spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu stated this in a statement on Tuesday...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), would be a pivotal legacy his administration will bequeath to the next administration in 2023. Speaking Tuesday in Abuja during the commissioning of the President Muhammadu Buhari Technology and...
President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated his commitment to handing over leadership to an elected president on May 29, 2023, saying that his term in office will end on that day in line with constitution. The president stated this at a brief remark when he hosted the Special Envoy of...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in Sokoto directed the Nigerian Armed Forces to remain apolitical and continue to operate within the framework of the constitution to ensure the successful conduct of the 2023 general elections. Declaring open the Chief of Army Staff’s Annual Conference...
The Federal Government on Monday berated the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, for accusing the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari of non-performance. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said it was absurd for Atiku to make such accusation when his party PDP...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with the Olumakaiye family, the Anglican Communion, and Christendom in general, over the passing of The Most. Rev. Dr Humphrey Bamisebi Olumakaiye, the Archbishop of Lagos, aged 53. The President in his condolence message issued on Monday by his...
The Vice-Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Datti Baba-Ahmed says the presidential ambition of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), means nothing to President Muhammadu Buhari. According to him, Buhari has finished with Nigeria and he is going to “unmake Tinubu after all his political successes”....
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Iyede-Ame Progressive Union (IPU) in Ndokwa East LGA of Delta State has commended the appointment of Mrs. Lauretta Onochie, as the substantive Board Chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), by President Muhammadu Buhari. The commendation was contained in a press statement issued...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged President Muhammadu Buhari to court for failing to probe the missing ecological funds at all levels. Joined in the suit as Respondents are the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN),...
President Muhammadu Buhari has performed the official ground-breaking ceremony of the new ECOWAS Headquarters complex also known as the Eye of West Africa, to be constructed by the Chinese Government. President Buhari declared that the edifice will strengthen the brotherhood of African countries. The building which comes in the...
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has spent at least 225 days away from the country on medical trips since assuming office in 2015, Sunday PUNCH investigation has uncovered. On February 5, 2016, eight months after assuming office, the President took his first medical trip to London, the...
President Buhari’s Minister of Education, Mr. Adamu Adamu, is a man who likes to take himself seriously. In ordinary circumstances, he should pass as one of the islands of some enlightenment in the arid cabinet of the outgoing administration. A long standing regional newspaper columnist and commentator on public...
President Muhammadu Buhari says he will try his best within the remaining time he has in office to ensure that the country’s investment drive is given the needed boost. The Executive Secretary of Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC), Saratu Umar, revealed this to State House correspondents on Friday in...
Presidency says nine oil-producing states have so far received a total of N625.43 billion 13 percent oil derivation, subsidy and SURE-P refunds from the Federation Account between 1999 and 2021. According to a statement on Friday in Abuja by Malam Garba Shehu, the president’s media aide, the affected states...