Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule on Tuesday urged the people of the state to turn out en-mass to receive President Muhammadu Buhari when he visits the state on Thursday. Sule made appeal in Lafia when he inspected the state’s Vocation and Skills Acquisition Institute. President Buhari is expected to...
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The Progressives Governors Forum (PGF) says it will comment on the postponement of the All Progressives Congress (APC) national convention after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday. The forum is the platform of all APC governors. The APC Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) postponed the party’s...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – The Presidency on Tuesday revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari would sign the Electoral Amendment Bill into law in a matter of hours. Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to the President, Femi Adesin made the this known while speaking as a guest on the Channels...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja- President Muhammadu Buhari has called on nations, institutions and bodies, both private and public, to return Nigeria’s artefacts in their possession. In a statement by the presidential spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, said the Nigerian leader made the appeal in the aftermath of the return of...
By JACOB KUBEKA, Abuja – The Human & Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre), has given Mr. Godwin Emefiele a 14-day ultimatum to resign from his position as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN),and pursue his political ambition (if he is interested) or disassociate himself publicly from...
Calls for collaboration in addressing COVID-19 effects By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Brussels, Belgium, welcomed the designation of Nigeria as one of the six countries in Africa designated as manufacturing bases for the COVID-19 vaccine, while also calling for collaboration to address the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Mr. Nathaniel Ikyur, the Chief Press Secretary (CPS), to Benue State Governor, Dr. Samuel Ortom, has declared that his principal does not hate President Muhammad Buhari. According to Ikyur, Ortom’s statements on the state of the nation should not be misconstrued for demeaning the...
“Without a common power to keep them all in awe, they(men) are in that condition called war”. -Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). The political history of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari whenever it will be written if he makes good his pledge to respect the supreme law and go into...
Most Nigerians do not know how actually President Buhari’s political misfortunes suddenly changed from a three-time serial loser to a dramatic winner in 2015. The incipient seed of this victory was sown in April, 2011, shortly after the declaration of the presidential election results that pronounced incumbent President Goodluck...
Nasarawa State lawmaker, Mohammed Alkali has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) remained a party to beat in the 2023 general elections in the country. Alkali, member representing Lafia North Constituency at the Nasarawa State House of Assembly, said this on Wednesday in Lafia. He spoke when Gwandara...
Some members of the All Progressive Congress (APC) from Daura Local Government Area (LGA) of Katsina, have protested against what they called “plans to impose another candidate in place of the one who won the primaries”. The leader of the members, who is also the state Chairman of ex-councilors,...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Mrs. Emily Chidinma Osuji as Executive Director of the Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC). The confirmation of the nominee on Tuesday, followed the consideration of the report of the Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions....
President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja, on Tuesday, to join European and other African leaders as well as heads of multilateral organisations at the 6th European Union-African Union Summit in Brussels, Belgium. The Presidrnt’s media aide, Malam Garba Shehu, confirmed this development in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja....
President Buhari on Tuesday submitted the 2022 Appropriation amendment proposal to the National Assembly. The amendment proposal is contained in a letter from the President which was read during the plenary. Senate President Ahmad Lawan and Speaker of the House of Representatives Femi Gbajabiamila read the letter in their...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors on Monday said President Muhammadu Buhari is unwilling to sign the Electoral Act Amendment Bill. Following the refusal of the president to sign the document over the mode of primaries, the National Assembly had on January 31 transmitted the reworked bill to the...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Sen. Lekan Balogun on his appointment as the 42nd Olubadan of Ibadanland. In a statement issued by the presidential spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, on Monday in Abuja, said the president noted that the dedication of High Chief Balogun, the...
Nigerians in Germany under the aegis of the Nigerian Union have declared their support for the Chief Whip of the Senate, Sen. Orji Kalu as their preferred candidate for president in 2023. A statement issued on Monday in Abuja by Orji Uzor Kalu Media Office, said that the group...
The Concerned Members Forum of All Progressives Congress (APC) has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari not to allow the 2023 presidential ambition of some top members of the party to destroy it. Convener of the forum, Mr Okpokwu Ogenyi, made the appeal in a letter he addressed to the...
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo departs Abuja on Monday for Monrovia, to represent President Muhammadu Buhari at the inauguration of the year-long commemoration of the Liberia’s bicentennial anniversary. Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice-President, made the declaration in a statement in...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari over “the failure to publish a copy of the agreement the Federal Government recently signed with Twitter, Inc, and the failure to publish the details of the terms and conditions...