The Federal Government says it will continue to negotiate with ASUU in spite of Wednesday’s court ruling restraining the union from continuing with its seventh month strike. The National Industrial Court of Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja ordered the striking lecturers to return to the classroom following a suit...
PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI
The Chief of Staff to the President, Ibrahim Gambari, has assured Nigerians that President Muhammadu Buhari will deliver on his pledge to the world leaders by delivering credible, free and fair elections in 2023. Gambari gave the assurance on Wednesday while reacting to President Buhari’s statement at the ongoing...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday in New York vowed to entrench a process of free, fair, transparent and credible elections through which Nigerians elect leaders of their choice. In his farewell speech to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) as President, he told the...
President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with Sen. Kabiru Gaya, Senator representing Kano South District, over the death of Sadiq, his son, who was believed to have died in suspicious circumstances. The president, in a statement by his spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, on Wednesday in Abuja consoled with Gaya and...
The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) on Tuesday inaugurated 2022 anti-corruption shadow report on progress towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 16 in Nigeria. SDG 16 is about peace, justice and strong institutions. The UN correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the SDGs Shadow Report...
President Muhammadu Buhari and some Nigerian political leaders were among world leaders that attended the opening of the General Debate of the 77th UN General Assembly on Tuesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Buhari was accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama and...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila has invited some top government functionaries to a meeting with a view to resolving the ongoing Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Gbajabiamila made this known after five hours closed door meeting between the leadership of the house and...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has joined the entertainment industry in celebrating juju music maestro and multi-instrumentalist, Chief Sunday Adeniyi Adegeye, better known as King Sunny Ade, who turns 76 on September 22, 2022. President Buhari’s congratulatory message is contained in a statement issued on Tuesday...
residential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi has been accused of lacking originality by promising to do what the President Muhammadu Buhari administration has already put in place. Making this accusation, the Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) said in a statement signed by its Chairman Niyi Akinsiju that Obi’s...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila says President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to present the 2023 budget to the National Assembly in October. Gbajabiamila said this when he addressed newsmen shortly after inspecting hearing rooms 028 and 234 of the House, which were expected to serve as...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has described as “barbaric and condemnable,” the armed shooting in Anambra of the convoy of Sen. Ifeanyi Ubah, the Senator representing Anambra South District. The president made the condemnation in a statement by his spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, on Wednesday in...
Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma has said armed bandits and hoodlums would have overrun his state if not for the prompt intervention of President Muhammadu Buhari. Governor Uzodimma stated this on Tuesday during the President’s visit to Owerri, the state capital. He said: “Your prompt intervention helped to restore...
President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated the recently reconstructed 36 Kilometres dualised Owerri-Orlu and the first phase of the 53 Kilometres dualised Owerri-Okigwe roads. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Buhari performed the inaugurations on Tuesday, as part of his one-day working visit to the state, the second...
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Faruk Yahaya has reiterated the commitment of the Nigerian Army to provide the necessary security assistance to ensure the successful conduct of the 2023 general elections. COAS Yahaya gave the assurance at the opening of the Third Quarter COAS Conference 2022 on Tuesday...
About two years ago, when President Muhammadu Buhari removed Professor Charles Dokubo (now late), as the interim Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, and in his place, appointed Mbiama, Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers State born Colonel Milland Dixon Dikio (rtd), stakeholders were happy for varying reasons....
The Oba of Benin, His Royal Majesty, Oba Ewuare II, has commended President Muhammadu Buhari’s position in the preservation of cultural ethos and traditional institution in Nigeria. Oba Ewuare made the commendation during a private meeting with the Ooni of Ife, His imperial Majesty, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi (Ọjájá...
The Federal Government said late Queen Elizabeth II of England was not only a monarch to her country home but also a representative of other nations of the world. Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Boss Mustapha stated this when he signed the condolence register before the...
The apex socio-cultural organisation in Igbo land, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has asked the Presidency to jettison the call to name the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) after Queen Elizabeth University of Nigeria, saying such move can be best for Aso Rock in Abuja or other parts of the North. This...
Mrs Uju Ohanenye, an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain on Friday in Abuja, said Nigeria’s current security and other challenges predated President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. She said this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sideline of the inauguration of her NGO, ‘9ja Save Nigeria...
Mr Usman Abubakar-Rimi, a Medicine and Surgery final year student in the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto (UDUS), has turned to street food vendor due prolonged industrial action by University lecturers. In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Sokoto, Abubakar-Rimi said he conceived the...