President Muhammadu Buhari congratulates Nigeria’s Super Eagles on Friday’s impressive win over the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. The president joins millions of football-loving Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora in applauding the senior men’s football team for their disciplined, skilful and entertaining display against […]
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Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti, says it is like President Muhammadu Buhari is endorsing sufferings for Nigerians by saying he is satisfied with the economy when even a “two-year-old child knows that there is hunger in the land”. At a meeting with Godwin Emefiele, governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN); Kemi Adeosun, minister of […]
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The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has assigned Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo to henceforth chair the concluding part of the ongoing negotiation between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). ASUU, an umbrella association of lecturers in the nation’s universities, is demanding the full implementation of the 2009 agreements reached with the federal […]
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Thousands of people thronged the Daura airstrip in Katsina State to welcome President Muhammadu Buhari, who has arrived his hometown for Eid-el-Kabir. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Airforce helicopter conveying the president and members of his immediate family landed at the airstrip at 4:45 p.m on Wednesday. The […]
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After his long absence, and the subsequent cancellation of the Federal Executive Council Meeting (FEC) last week, President Muhammadu Buhari is currently presiding over the council in Abuja. Among other matters, the council is expected to discuss the issue of the on-going strike embarked on over two weeks ago by lecturers in government-owned universities across […]
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Following the Federal Government’s call for his bail to be revoked, Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB), says anyone who comes to “biafraland” to arrest him will die there. Following his arrest by the Department of State Services (DSS), and 18 months incarceration, Binta Nyako, justice of a federal high court […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday met behind closed doors with the leaderships of the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting, which started around 11.10a.m., was still ongoing as of the time of filing this report. It is being attended by the Vice-President, […]
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NIGERIA – Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said on Thursday that no amount of hatred will obliterate the solid achievements recorded by the Administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. The Minister stated this in Abuja while declaring open the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC)’ Annual Lecture and 25th Anniversary celebration of creation of the […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has signed a bilateral treaty with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that will strengthen Nigeria’s war against corruption. By this treaty, Nigeria will be able to extradite and prosecute its citizens who launder ill-gotten wealth in the UAE. In his remark at the signing ceremony at the state house on Thursday, Buhari […]
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Spokesman to President Muhammadu Buhari, Femi Adesina, has come to the defence of his boss, saying there is no Nigerian law that requires the federal executive council (FEC) meeting to hold every week. President Buhari had cancelled the meeting and opted to receive the reports on the probe of the director-general of National Intelligence Agency […]
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