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Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday asked the Senate to confirm the appointment of the acting Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola as the substantive CJN. The request was contained in a letter by the president dated 25th July, 2022, and read by the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, at the start of plenary […]
Continue ReadingIn a new video, terrorists who kidnapped the passengers of Kaduna-Abuja train, have vowed to abduct President Muhammadu Buhari, and Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasiru El-Rufai if their demands are not met soon. The terrorists suspected to be members of Ansaru also stated that they will abduct other prominent Nigerians, as well as cause mayhem […]
Continue ReadingThe July 16th 2022 governorship election in Osun state is a return match of the 2018 governorship election fielding the same protagonists, the incumbent governor Gboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress, APC and Senator Demola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The major takeaway from the 2018 precedent is that it was a […]
Continue ReadingPa Ayo Adebanjo, leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has endorsed presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi. Speaking on Yoruba Gbode, an online radio programme, Adebanjo said only Peter Obi can rule independently among the current crop of presidential candidates. The Afenifere leader also accused Presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu […]
Continue ReadingNigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari joined other Muslim faithful at the Kofor Arewa Eid praying ground in Daura, Katsina state, Nigeria, to offer their prayers on Saturday July 9, in commemoration of this year’s Eid-el-Kabir. The Emir of Daura, Alhaji Faruq Umar, in his remarks at the praying ground, urged Nigerians not to relent in their […]
Continue ReadingThe outgoing Secretary-General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Muhammad Sanusi Barkindo, is dead. He died at about 11pm on Tuesday July 5. He was aged 63. His death was announced in the early hours of of Wednesday July 6, by NNPC GMD, Mele Kyari, who described his departure as a great loss […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement signed on Friday by Garba Shehu, his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari said his government would do everything possible to ensure the return of those abducted in an attack on a mining site in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State, describing the attack as a […]
Continue ReadingIn a judgment on Friday, a seven-member panel of Nigerian Supreme Court, headed by Justice Musa Dattijo Mohammed, was unanimous in holding that President Muhammadu Buhari, having participated in the making of the provision of Section 84(12) of the Electoral Act 2022, by assenting to it, could not turn around seeking to void it. The […]
Continue ReadingNigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari has departed Abuja for Kigali, Rwanda, to attend the 26th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), being held from June 20 to 26, 2022. A statement issued by Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media & Publicity, said that at the meeting, the President will join other leaders to […]
Continue ReadingFrom December 2021 to June 15, 2022, at least 3,478 people were killed while 2,256 others were abducted across the country according to a tally collated by Punch. The figures were obtained from the daily incidents recorded by the Nigeria Security Tracker, a project of the Council on Foreign Relations, an American think-tank, during the […]
Continue ReadingADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE OCCASION OF COMMEMORATION AND CELEBRATION OF DEMOCRACY DAY 12TH JUNE, 2022 Fellow Nigerians, Today, June The 12th, marks another Democracy Day anniversary and an occasion to celebrate freedom and unity of our […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement made in Abuja on Monday, the Nigerian Presidency has said that no one could or should claim to have single-handedly engineered the emergence of Muhammadu Buhari as President in the 2015 general elections. The Senior Special Assistant to the President, Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said the past should not decide the […]
Continue ReadingPresident Muhammadu Buhari has charged governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to ensure that the forthcoming convention to pick a presidential candidate reflects all the values and virtues of the party. He also said the candidate to be selected has to be one “who would give the Nigerian masses a sense of victory and confidence even […]
Continue ReadingNigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday, May 26, left Abuja to participate in the African Union Extra-ordinary Session of Assembly of Heads of State and Government in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. Buhari was accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, who is the President of the African First Ladies’ Peace Mission, and their two daughters, Zahra […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s political parties, particularly the two major ones – the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC, are in deep crisis and there is no doubt that the smaller parties, already reduced to the level of spectators in the on-going unfolding grand spectacle of politics and melodrama are just as circumstanced as […]
Continue ReadingNigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari will be travelling to Abu Dhabi, the capital of United Arab Emirates (UAE) on a two-day visit. While in Abu Dhabi, the President will meet the new President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, to convey his condolences on the passing of the […]
Continue ReadingBuhari has returned to Twitter 11 months after he stopped tweeting following the ban on the microblogging platform. The Buhari administration banned Twitter after the platform deleted tweets by the president, threatening to treat members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in the “language they understand”. The ban was announced on June 4, 2021 […]
Continue ReadingThere was tension inside the main bowl of the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos this day, December 11, 2014. President Goodluck Jonathan, having been rendered one of the most worthless clothes a people could wear on their festive day by the demolition propaganda machine of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) it was obvious that whoever scored […]
Continue ReadingCatholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Nigeria, Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah, said he was looking forward to a debate with the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, and presidential spokespersons, Femi Adesina and Garba Shehu, over the country’s state of affairs. The fiery cleric also accused presidential spokesmen of being inefficient and poor writers. Responding to Kukah’s […]
Continue ReadingFormer Minister of Youth and Sports in President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet, Solomon Dalung has dumped the All Progressives Congress (APC). Dalung, who served as minster in the first term of President Muhammadu Buhari, announced his resignation from the ruling party via a letter dated April 18, 2022. In the letter addressed to his ward Chairman […]
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