Presidential media adviser, Femi Adesina says those opposing or criticizing President Muhammadu Buhari’s approval of one billion dollars for security funding are only playing politics with the lives of Nigerians. The Minister of Defence, retired Brig.-Gen. Mansur Dan-Ali had on Wednesday revealed that President Buhari had granted assent for the release of the one billion […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday held an emergency meeting with Security Chief. After the over two hours meeting, the service chiefs refused to comment on what the president and his vice discussed with them. But President Buhari has disclosed that he urged the security chiefs to step up “intelligence gathering and sharing” to help them […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Edward Adamu as the deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. Adamu’s appointment was announced in a statement by Femi Adesina, spokesman of the president. Adesina also said the appointment is subject to the confirmation of the senate. “In accordance with the provisions of Section […]
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The Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, Mr. Femi Adesina, on Friday listed the 17 achievements of Buhari on Facebook. He also noted that the coming year (2018) will be Nigeria’s “Year of Infrastructure” as the government has lined up a number of important infrastructure projects which cut across the various […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari says he saw “unbelievable things” when he assumed office in 2015. Femi Adesina, his spokesman, quoted him as saying this while receiving supporters under the aegis of the Governance Support Group in Abuja. “Some of the things I saw here were unbelievable. I still shudder and wonder how a country can survive […]
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By Femi Adesina Let me begin by telling a story. On June 1, 2015, the day I resumed work as adviser on media to President Muhammadu Buhari, he had admonished me: “Adesina, always tell me the truth. That is what I want from you. In this type of position I have found myself, it is […]
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By Femi Adesina It was a gust of chilly wind that said Akwaaba (welcome, in Ghanaian language) to me in the Jordanian city of Aqaba, that night of December 1, 2017. We had flown for about five hours from Abuja, as President Muhammadu Buhari was to attend a summit on combating terrorism in West Africa, […]
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The Federal Executive Council (FEC) presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday approved N5.6bn for soil erosion control accelerated intervention projects for six states in different geopolitical zones in the country. This disclosure was made by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, who was joined at a […]
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As shown in a list of appointees released by the presidency, President Muhammadu Buhari has made more appointments from the south-east than the south-south and north-central since he assumed office on May 29, 2015. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, released the list of 159 appointees on Saturday night. […]
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Reno Omokri, former aide of ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, has hit out at Femi Adesina, spokesman of President Muhammadu Buhari, describing him as the mouthpiece of a murderous regime sustained by propaganda and surviving on corruption. Adesina had said Nigerians did not resent the hike in the price of fuel because they trust Buhari. But in […]
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