President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Ifeanyi Ararume as Chairman of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited’s Board of Directors and Management. The President also named Mele Kolo Kyari and Umar I. Ajiya as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer respectively. A statement by Special Adviser to the President on Media and…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday said that he would want to be remembered as the President who stabilised Nigeria in the area of security, economic prosperity and triumph over corruption. The President, who spoke at a town hall meeting with South East leaders during his one-day official visit to Imo State, said with less than…
President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the Ministers of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Sabo Nanono and his Power counterpart, Saleh Mamman. The President’s Special Adviser on (Media & Publicity), Femi Adesina, made the announcement on Wednesday. Dr. Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar, Minister of Environment, has been redeployed to assume office as the Minister of Agriculture &…
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the attack launched on the facility of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) on Tuesday, rather than throw a dampener into the morale of our Armed Forces as it is intended to, will buoy their determination to make a decisive end of criminality in the country. The President in a…
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved recommendations of a committee to review “with dispatch,” 368 grazing sites, across 25 states in the country, “to determine the levels of encroachment.” The President’s directive followed his approval of the recommendations of a committee chaired by the Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari. Among others, the…
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Petroleum Industry Bill 2021 into law. The president’s assent to the bill is coming few weeks after the bill was passed by the national Assembly. In a statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, the President assented to the Bill on…
President Muhammadu Buhari will today Monday July 26, 2021, travel to the United Kingdom to participate in the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025. The President will after the Summit be spending some days for an earlier scheduled medical check-up and he is expected to return to Nigeria by the…
The Senate on Thursday approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s request for ongoing external loans to the tune of $8,325,526,537 (USD) and €490,000,000 (Euros) under the 2018-2020 External Borrowing (Rolling) Plan. The approval followed the consideration of a report on the 2018-2020 External Borrowing (Rolling) Plan by the Committee on Local and Foreign Debt. Chairman of the…
The 2021 Supplementary Appropriation Bill has passed second reading at the House of Representatives. The money bill of N895.842billion was passed on Wednesday during plenary by a session presided over by the Speaker, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila. The Leader of the House, Rep. Alhassan Ado-Doguwa, while leading debate on the general principles of the bill, said…
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved allocation of 3-bedroom houses to the Super Eagles Squad that won the African Cup of Nations in Tunis, Tunisia, in 1994, making real a promise by the Federal Government. The Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media & Publicity), Garba Shehu, made the announcement in a statement on Thursday. He…