Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa state, has accused leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) of perpetrating crimes under the cover of the federal government and politicising national security. In a statement issued by Francis Agbo, his spokesman, the governor alleged that leaders of the ruling party have taken advantage of “dysfunctional” Nigerian state to […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday inaugurated new train coaches and locomotives at Rigasa train station in Kaduna state. Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, attended the event.
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Outspoken Catholic priest, Ejike Mbaka, has warned President Muhammadu Buhari against contesting in the 2019 presidential election, insisting the president will be disgraced and shamed publicly if he tries it. As reported by The Sun newspaper. Mr. Mbaka, who gave the warning during his new year message at the Adoration ground in Enugu on Sunday, […]
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Tunde Bakare, a Senior Pastor at Latter Rain Assembly, has said he would contest the presidency “at the appointed time”. Bakare, who was once a Vice Presidential candidate to incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari, said his presidential aspiration was a revelation from God. “This twelfth one is a difficult one for me. It may draw excitement […]
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In a statement on Monday, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) described President Muhammadu Buhari’s new year message as a “boring litany of blame passing”. It said the address, which ended up making Nigerians “more depressed completely failed to respond to issues of corruption under the All Progressives Congress (APC) regime”. “We already knew the pattern […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari will on Monday, January 1, make a national broadcast on the occasion of the 2018 year. According to Mr. Garva Shehu, Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media & Publicity), the broadcast would be made at 7 a.m. “Television and radio stations are enjoined to hook up to the network services […]
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The senior special assistant to the president on media, Garba Shehu, has defended the appointments made by his principal into boards of government agencies, saying the list dates back to 2015 when Buhari asked the state chapters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to forward names for appointments. He said this in reaction to the […]
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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 in one fell swoop on Friday appointed 209 board chairmen and 1,258 members of government owned agencies and parastatals, redeeming a part of the pledge he made 31 October at the National Executive Committee meeting of his All Progressives Congress. More appointments are on the way, said Mr. Boss Mustapha, secretary to […]
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Liberia’s National Elections Commission (NEC) on Friday formally declared international football icon, George Weah of the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC), as President-elect of Liberia. Chairman of the commission, Mr Jerome Korkoya, made the declaration after announcing the final results of the Dec. 26 presidential runoff election at the NEC headquarters in Monrovia. The final […]
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