President Muhammadu Buhari, has embarked on a short vacation from Friday February 5 to Wednesday February 10, 2016.This piece of information was made public by Femi Adesina, special adviser on media and publicity to the president. Mr. Adesina in his statement, said, Yemi Osinbajo, the vice president, will perform the functions of the president while […]
Continue ReadingAs part of efforts to improve Nigeria’s legal framework in the fight against corruption, President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday requested the National Assembly to consider and approve Money Laundering Prevention and Prohibition Bill 2016 and the Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Bill 2016. The letters covering the bills were read at plenary, by the […]
Continue ReadingHere are photographs of President Buhari, as he left Abuja, on a 3-day state tour to Kenya where he will join, President Uhuru Kenyatta and other dignitaries at a memorial service for Kenyan soldiers killed by Al-Shabaab in Somalia. He will then proceed to Nairobi on Thursday for bilateral talks with Kenyan government officials. to […]
Continue ReadingThe national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), John Oyegun, says the party is suffering from “strains of funding”, but it does not intend to bother President Muhammadu Buhari because raising funds for the party is not part of his national assignment. Oyegun, who stated this at an interactive session with journalists at the […]
Continue ReadingSenator representing Kogi West senatorial district, Dino Melaye of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2016 budget as holy. He made this declaration while making his contribution to debate on the 2016 appropriation bill on the floor of the senate. Positing that the budget would serve the interest of Nigerians, he […]
Continue ReadingPresident Buhari has acknowledged that he was aware of the controversies and confusion the corrections made on the budget proposals had provoked in the polity. He explicated that the draft bill did not change, neither were there any changes in the figures of either the sectoral allocations or the total budget figures. Meanwhile, Nigerian Senate […]
Continue ReadingThe 2016 budget presented to the national assembly on December 22, 2015 by President Muhammadu buhari has been reported missing. As reported by TheCable, a top official at the National Assembly revealed that the 2016 budget is missing. “The truth is there is no 2016 budget at the national assembly at present,” he said. “When […]
Continue ReadingOlisa Metuh, national publicity secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have aimed a jibe at President Muhammadu Buhari for his performance at his inaugural presidential media chat, positing that the president “obviously does not understand the currency that applies in the devaluation of the naira”. Olisa said the president’s responses to questions were “not […]
Continue ReadingGarba Shehu, senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, has revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari “will step on big toes” in his anti-corruption campaign. Garba said this in Kaduna at the opening of a three-day retreat for state house correspondents. He described the media as “one of government’s most lethal weapons” in […]
Continue ReadingFormer Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, on Tuesday faulted President Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigerian military over the December deadline for ending the Boko Haram insurgency. President Buhari had earlier given the military three months to end insurgency, which ends in December. Mr. Gowon said the military would do its best to meet the December […]
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