PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has denied expressing anti-Igbo sentiments in a recent interview with the BBC Hausa Service as claimed by a pirate radio station, describing it as “completely false, malicious and slanderous.” A statement by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said the voice being ascribed to Buhari in […]
A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stalwart and ex- Parliamentary Liaison Adviser to late President Umaru Ya’Adua, Senator Abba Aji, has blamed former President Goodluck Jonathan for what he called the deliberate destruction of the party (PDP) before leaving office two month ago. Abba Aji who was justifying his decision to quit his party (PDP) to […]
From Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Mr. Patrick Ziakede Akpobolokemi. Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Femi Adesina, in a statement, said the sack is with immediate effect. Akpobolokemi will hand over to the most senior officer in […]
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said on Wednesday that he chose the late former President Umaru Yar’ Adua as his successor because the others, who wanted the post, were corrupt. Obasanjo said one of the people who wanted to succeed him in 2007 was “stinkingly corrupt” and that the only way he (Obasanjo) could justify himself […]
President Muhammadu Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo have announced their decision to take only 50 per cent of the salary approved for them by the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission. Their decision was contained in a statement made available to journalists on Friday by the Senior Special Assistant […]
President still compiling shopping list for G7 leaders FROM JULIANA TAIWO-OBALONYE, ABUJA President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday described as shameful for Nigeria whose military might helped end the wars in Burma, Zaire , Liberia, Sierra Leone and Sudan, now rely on its neighbours to end the insurgency in the North-easten part of the country. This is […]
The bureaucrats While Nigeria currently does not have substantive ministers assisting President Muhammadu Buhari to run the government, state affairs must continue. Our correspondents examine the people who perform these tasks pending the appointment of substantive ministers For no fewer than 38 days, the country’s Federal Executive Council which was dissolved by former President […]
Buhari, Obama ENIOLA AKINKUOTU examines the implications of the United States’ Supreme Court judgment on the foreign policy outlook of President Barack Obama In less than three weeks, President Muhammadu Buhari will visit his counterpart in the United States, Barack Obama, for the first time to discuss political and economic issues as well […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the latest attacks carried out by suspected members of terror group Boko Haram. More than 50 people died last week after three separate attacks in the country. At least 42 people died in two attacks in Borno state which followed the deaths of at least 10 people at a […]
NNPC Towers Abuja | credits: ookaboo.com Almost a month after he assumed office, President Muhammadu Buhari has dissolved the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation with immediate effect. The announcement was made in a terse statement issued on Friday by the Director of Communications in the Office of the Head of Civil Service of […]
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