President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday signed eight bills earlier passed by the National Assembly into law. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang, briefed State House Correspondents after the President signed the bills into law. Prominent among the bills signed into law is the Legislative Houses (Power […]
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Nigeria’s minister of communications, Adebayo Shittu, has disclosed that the campaign for the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 has commenced and said that the south-west campaign office would be inaugurated on January 20. Shittu also disclosed that he had been appointed the national chairman of the board of trustees of ‘Buhari/Osinbajo Dynamic Support […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday condemned the “very cruel and dastardly” suicide bomb blast in a mosque in Mubi, Adamawa. Buhari, in a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Tuesday, commiserated with families of the several victims, government and people of the state. He assured […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed concern over unpaid salaries and allowances by state governments. Receiving a group of governors led by Abdul’Aziz Yari, chairman of the Nigerian governors’ forum (NGF), at the presidential villa in Abuja on Tuesday, Buhari wondered the effect of interventions by the federal government. He said the plight of workers need urgent […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved N45 billion for the settlement of entitlements for workers of the defunct national carrier, Nigeria Airways. Minister of State for Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, disclosed this to State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council, FEC, presided over by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo. He said the federal government expressed regrets over […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the commencement of formal process for proscription of secessionist group, the Indigeneous People of Biafra (IPOB). The Nigerian Military had last week declared IPOB a terrorist organisation after which governors of the five south-east states announced the proscription of the activities of the group in the region. But the development […]
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Two military chiefs, the heads of the Nigerian Army and that of the Air Force on Tuesday briefed President Muhammadu Buhari on their operations and reassured him of their unalloyed loyalty. The meetings with Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai and the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, were held behind closed […]
Continue ReadingAs the media is taken over the arrest of some judges for corruption by the DSS, the Presidency has assured that the President reserves his highest respect for the judiciary as the third arm of government.Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on media and publicity, said the President will not do anything to […]
Continue ReadingThe National Economic Council, NEC, on Thursday in Abuja expressed support for the plans and proposals of the Federal Government to steer the country out of economic recession.Gov. Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi announced this when he briefed State House correspondents on the outcome of the NEC meeting, which was presided over by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo. […]
Continue ReadingIjaw elder-statesman, Chief Edwin Clark has expressed optimism that President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption crusade will give Nigeria a better future, if allowed to succeed.The Ijaw leader spoke in Warri, Delta State, at the announcement of the academic year of the newly approved Law Faculty of Edwin Clark University, Kiagbodo (ECUK). Speaking in the company of […]
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