President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday received the re-elected governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki and his deputy, Phillip Shaibu in Abuja. The Governor is on a courtesy visit to appreciate the president for his stance on a fair and peaceful governorship election in Edo State last Saturday. The president in his remark appreciated the Governor…
The President yesterday defended the borrowing by his administration, saying he borrows to enable the country fix its roads to save lives from soaring road accidents. He also asserted that his government took loans in the interest of the country to solve the dire shortfall in infrastructure. Buhari justified his governments’ borrowing while speaking at…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Abuja said the government had been able to avert food crisis despite the outbreak of COVID-19. He said the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the level of preparedness of nations to shocks of food security, explaining that the Federal Government’s wisdom in promoting self-sufficiency over the years helped significantly in…
President Muhammadu Buhari will on Monday depart Nigeria for Niger Republic. He will be traveling to Niamey, Niger Republic to participate in the 57th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government. A statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President, (Media & Publicity), Garba Shehu, stated that the one-day…
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar will unseat President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019, says Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) House of Representatives Candidate, Lagos Island Federal Constituency 1, Violet Olaitan Williams. “Atiku Abubakar has basic understanding of what the people need. He is the man to beat. His chances are growing by the day” she said. Williams…
President Muhammadu Buhari has been urged to throw his hat in the ring because he has invested in roads, bridges, other infrastructure and security. South-South leaders, during a meeting on Sunday, expressed satisfaction with the performance of President Buhari. In report circulated by a media practitioner, Henry Ovie, to journalists, it was stated that, “At…
A chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and an ally of Rotimi Amaechi, erstwhile Governor of Rivers State and incumbent Minister of Transportation, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has given reasons why former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, wrote the controversial Special Press Statement released last Tuesday, in which he viciously attacked President Muhammadu Buhari,…
Last month, April 2017, the news was everywhere on how security agencies showed up at the premises of the Pension Commission (PENCOM) headquarters. That this happened a little after the erstwhile Director General of the Commission, Mrs Chinelo Anohu-Amazu, was sacked by President Muhammadu Buhari raised a lot of suspicion of fraud. The popular guess…
As the four year mandate Nigerians offered President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) approaches half time, mix reactions are trailing the performance of his administration and the efficiency of his appointees. The robust pre-election crusade that the change agenda would transform Nigeria from wilderness to paradise leaves many wondering why Nigerians should still be drowning in poverty,…
A Nigerian author, Olusegun Olatunde Oyegbami, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari and former President Olusegun Obasanjo of causing the present economic woes in Nigeria. Oyegbami, who is the author of ‘Reversing the Rot in Nigeria’, made this known in this interview, where he also talked on the fraud behind the Petroleum Equalization Fund (PEF) and…