By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has offered his condolence to President Muhammadu Buhari after severe floods claimed many lives and affected millions in the country. In a message issued on Wednesday, the Japanese Prime Minister expressed deep sadness over ”the recent floods caused by...
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By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (Rtd), on the occasion of his 88th birthday, October 19, 2022. President Buhari, in his congratulatory message issued by his spokesman Mr Femi Adesina on Tuesday in Abuja, celebrated with the...
The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has pledged to build on the legacies of President Muhammadu Buhari, if elected as President in 2023. Tinubu made the pledge when he addressed participants of the Ministerial Performance Review Retreat on Tuesday in Abuja. The APC...
….Directs SGF, ministers to start preparing transition documents By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja warned Ministers, Permanent Secretaries and Heads of Government Agencies not to abandon the business of governance for electioneering, saying ”any infraction will be viewed seriously.” The President issued the...
President Muhammadu has charged nations of ECOWAS to deploy Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) in addressing various challenges such as diseases and catastrophes ravaging people of the sub region. The president gave the charge while declaring open the maiden edition of African Research and Innovation Forum (FARI) 2022 in...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to “promptly set up a presidential panel of enquiry to thoroughly, impartially, and transparently investigate the operations of illegal oil pipelines from 2001 to date, and to widely publish the names of anyone suspected to be involved.” SERAP...
President Muhammadu Buhari has commended Kaduna State for establishing its credentials as an investment destination of choice in Nigeria. President Buhari gave the commendation on Saturday during day three of the ongoing 7th Kaduna Economic and Investment Summit. Buhari was represented by the Minister of State for Industry, Trade...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – Chinese President Xi Jinping has commiserated with President Muhammadu Buhari on the recent boat mishap in Anambra State. Recalled that over 40 people were reported to have died in the accident which happened Friday, October 7, at Umunankwo in Ogbaru local government area of...
Mr Ishaku Jilemsam, the National Vice President, National Rice Producers, Processors, Millers and Marketers Association of Nigeria has lauded President Muhammadu Buhari for the ban on rice importation. Jilemsam spoke at the opening of a one-day capacity building workshop organised by the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) on Friday...
President Muhammadu Buhari has again summoned security chiefs to deliberate on successes being recorded from ongoing onslaught against terrorists and other criminals across the country. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the security chiefs would be updating the president on various military operations against criminals in the...
President Muhammmadu Buhari has appealed to member states of the Gulf of Guinea Commission (GGC) to remit their outstanding Annual Assessed Contributions to the Secretariat to meet the Commission’s objectives. The President made the appeal at a virtual meeting of the Heads of State and Government of member states...
The 2023 Appropriation Bill on Wednesday scaled second reading in the Senate. This followed the presentation of the lead debate by the sponsor and Senate Leader, Ibrahim Gobir at plenary. Leading the debate on the general principles of the bill, Gobir said that it was laid before the chamber...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – President Muhammadu Buhari has conferred the national honour award of Commander of Order of Niger (CON) on Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum CON,. Zulum was conferred the award on Tuesday at the International Conference Center, Abuja among other hundreds of awardees spread...
Lagos, October 12, 2022 – A foremost Pan-African business magnate and social entreprenuer, Ichie (Dr) Nnaeto Orazulike has been conferred with a national honour in the rank of Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON) by the president, Muhammadu Buhari at the 2022 National Honours Award investiture ceremony...
The House of Representatives has passed for second reading the 2023 appropriation Bill, as members kicked against the continuous payment of fuel subsidy and high debt profile in the country The House also said that the two issues were the major factors crippling the nation’s economy. Rep. Abubakar Fulata,...
President Muhammadu Buhari has sworn in Justice Olukayode Ariwoola as substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria at the Council chamber of the State House, Abuja, on Wednesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the swearing in of Ariwoola followed his confirmation by the Senate on Sept 21 three...
The conferment of national honours on Adamu Adamu and Mohammed Bello — the respective ministers of education and the Federal Capital Territory — has been described as ‘scandalous’ and injurious to Nigeria’s image. Inibehe Effiong, a Lagos-based human rights lawyer, condemned the awards in an interview with THE WHISTLER on Tuesday....
President Muhammadu Buhari has conferred National Honours on 450 Nigerians and non-Nigerians, assuring that he will hand over a Nigeria that is free from insecurity to the next generation of leaders. The president, who stated this while conferring the awards on the recipients in Abuja on Tuesday, said the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The PDP Governors’ Forum has congratulated its members who were conferred with the prestigious National Honours of Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON), by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja. The Director General of PDP Governors Forum, Maduabum, gave the commendation...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in N’Djamena, joined the celebrations of the people of Republic of Chad in inaugurating their interim administration to lead the country to elections and the formation of a democratic government. The Nigerian leader, who is the current Chairman of the Lake Chad Basin Countries...