President Muhammadu Buhari has challenged members of the All Progressives Congress Women Presidential Campaign Team to work hard in ensuring victory for the party in the 2023 general elections. The president, who made the call at the inauguration of the APC Women team in Abuja on Monday, said the...
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By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over the boat mishap in Anambra State which has led to the death of dozen of people. President Buhari in his condolence message issued on Sunday by his spokesman Malam Garba Shehu, condole with the families of the...
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar cannot absolve himself and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of blame for the problem besetting the Mambila hydro-electric power project, contrary to the impression he recently created on the campaign trail. According to the Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) in a statement signed by its Chairman...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari and 36 state governors to “publicly instruct the Nigeria police and state security outfits to respect, protect, and facilitate the rights of everyone to freedom of expression, assembly, association, and equal participation during...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with the family of Chief Vincent Ogbulafor, former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who passed on Friday at 73. President Buhari also commiserated with leaders and members of the PDP, the Olokoro Royal family in Umuahia, government...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday met with the leadership of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum over the reported cases of flood across the country. The president, who presided over the meeting in the State House, Abuja, encouraged the governors to meet with the Minister of Water Resources to fashion out...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has urged Muslims to “practice the noble and shining virtues of the Prophet Muhammad”, saying that “the best way to honour him is to follow his good examples.” In his goodwill message to Muslims on the occasion of Maulud to celebrate...
Some senators on Friday, expressed divergent views on the N20.5 trillion Appropriation Bill for 2023. Those who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) said it is a bill of sustainability while others said that there were areas the Buhari’s administration needed to address before handing over power...
The President of the Senate Ahmad Lawan says Nigeria loses one million barrels of crude oil daily to crude theft. He made the remarks at the presentation of the 2023 Appropriation Bill to a joint session of the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja on Friday. Lawan...
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the Federal Government has provided N470 billion in the 2023 Budget for revitalisation and salary enhancements in the tertiary institutions. The President said this when he presented the 2023 Appropriation Bill of N20.5 trillion to a joint session of the National Assembly. The...
President Muhammadu Buhari says the Federal Government has allocated N470 billion for revitalisation of tertiary institutions in the country in 2023. Buhari said this when he presented N19.7 trillion 2023 budget to a joint session of the National Assembly on Friday in Abuja. The president said that government was...
President Muhammadu Buhari says additional 2,000 kilometres of roads and bridges will be constructed under the Road Infrastructure Tax Credit Scheme. The president revealed this when he presented the 2023 budget proposal of N20.5 trillion at the joint session of the National Assembly (NASS), on Friday in Abuja. He...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday presented before the two chambers of the National Assembly, the proposed N19.76 trillion budget for the 2023 financial year. The N19.76 trillion budget which was presented by the president is the last he will present before his tenure elapses, and it a 15.37 per...
Security has been beefed up at the main gates to the National Assembly as President Muhammadu Buhari presents the 2023 budget estimate of N19.76 trillion to a joint session of the Assembly. A crop of security agents including the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Department of State Services (DSS), Nigeria...
The west must return Africa’s stolen assets, artefacts – Buhari writes for Financial Times of London
The west must return Africa’s stolen assets, artefacts – Buhari writes for Financial Times of London
Nigerians were delighted by the news this summer that 72 artefacts, known as the Benin Bronzes, held by the Horniman Museum in London were returning home, 125 years after being plundered by British troops. The clamour for repatriation of looted treasures is becoming irresistible. There was once a similar...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has met with the freed 23 passengers of the March 28, 2022 Abuja-Kaduna train attack at the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) hospital in Kaduna. Presidentail spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, confirmed this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. He said the...
President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged that he will address three major requests tabled by Gov. Duoye Diri of Bayelsa, with “promptness and immediacy.” Malam Garba Shehu, the president’s spokesman, in a statement in Abuja, said the president made the pledge while responding to an address by the governor during...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his happiness and satisfaction, and that of the entire nation with the military as well as other security agencies on safe release of the remaining 23 kidnapped train passengers held in captivity by Boko Haram terrorists. In a reaction...
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has endorsed the 2023 budget proposal for onward presentation to the National Assembly. Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, confirmed this when he addressed State House Correspondents after the Council meeting on Wednesday. The meeting was presided over by...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja met behind closed door with the leadership of the House of Representatives over the ongoing strike by the Academic staff union of universities (ASUU). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, led...